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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa


The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
1700 to the Present
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108938198
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
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South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral resources. Scientific work both facilitated, and offered alternatives to, ....

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A safari into the social history of the Kruger National...


As a black South African, Jacob Dlamini, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, has brought an important perspective to conservation and natural history issues. Dlamini’s focus is the social history of the Kruger National Park, a history riven by complexity and conflict. He examines a range of issues: the politicisation of nature, migrant labour, the “Bantustans” and the largely neglected history of black tourism to the park under colonialism and apartheid.
One of the ironies of the Bantustans or homeland system uncovered here is that the park had to find ways to accommodate the tourists drawn from them as they had to be treated as international travellers. “… there is no doubt,” Dlamini writes, “that homelands helped to hasten the demise of apartheid by making it difficult for the KNP, for example, to maintain petty apartheid”. The largely forgotten experiences of Indian and coloured tourists to the park under apartheid are also brought to ....

South Africa , Mozambique General , Kruger National Park , South African , Jane Carruthers , Nelson Mandela , James Stevenson Hamilton , Jacob Dlamini , Julius Nyerere , Charles Van Onselen , Princeton University , Sabi Game Reserve , Given South Africa , Kruger Park , மொசாம்பிக் ஜநரல் , க்ரூகர் தேசிய பூங்கா , ஜேன் கற்றுத்தேர்ஸ் , நெல்சன் மண்டேலா , ஜேம்ஸ் ஸ்டீவன்சன் ஹாமில்டன் , ப்ரிந்ஸ்டந் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , சபி விளையாட்டு இருப்பு , க்ரூகர் பூங்கா ,