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Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins

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Author : Hilton Judin
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01

Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins written by Hilton Judin and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

Monuments And Memory In Africa

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Author : John Sodiq Sanni
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-05

Monuments And Memory In Africa written by John Sodiq Sanni and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Political Science categories.

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as #RhodesMustFall in South Africa have sprung up around the world, connected by a history of Black life struggles, erasures, oppression, suppression, and the depression of Black biopolitics. This book provides an important multidisciplinary intervention in the discourse on monuments and memories, asking what they are, what they have been used to represent, and ultimately what they can reveal about past and present forms of pain and oppression. Drawing on insights from philosophy, historical sociology, politics, museum, and literary studies, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars with an interest in the decolonisation of global African history.

Architecture State Modernism And Cultural Nationalism In The Apartheid Capital

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Author : Hilton Judin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-08

Architecture State Modernism And Cultural Nationalism In The Apartheid Capital written by Hilton Judin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-08 with Architecture categories.

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.

The Ruins Of The Most Beautiful Monuments Of Greece

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Author : David Le Roy
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2004

The Ruins Of The Most Beautiful Monuments Of Greece written by David Le Roy and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.

The striking engravings of Julien-David Le Roy's The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758) first revealed the architectural wonders of ancient Athens to the West. Part architectural theory, part archaeological report, part travelogue, the greatly expanded edition of 1770 -- here translated into English -- is entirely original in its understanding of the spirit of classical Greek architecture and in its influence on the direction of contemporary architectural creation. Book jacket.

History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Author : Edward Gibbon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.

A Glimpse At Guatemala And Some Notes On The Ancient Monuments Of Central America

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Author : Anne Cary Morris Maudslay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

A Glimpse At Guatemala And Some Notes On The Ancient Monuments Of Central America written by Anne Cary Morris Maudslay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Central America categories.

The Missionary S Wife

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Author : Tim Jeal
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-11-21

The Missionary S Wife written by Tim Jeal and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-21 with Fiction categories.

In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble after gold, ivory, and converts. Young Englishwoman Clara Musson, though, travels with a different purpose. Jilted in love, doubting her Christian faith, she hoped to find renewed meaning as the wife of charismatic missionary Robert Haslam. What she finds is an obsessive zeal that will provoke a civil war. 'A powerful love story fleshed out with vivid historical detail, narrative tension and subtle post-colonial awareness... remarkably engaging and skilfully told.' Guardian 'Jeal brilliantly evokes the sights and sounds and smells of 1890s Africa.' Sunday Times 'Brilliantly plotted... a book of deep moral intelligence.' Lynn Barber, Literary Review 'Gripping... moving and convincing.' Allan Massie, Scotsman