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The life and times of Ethel Tawse Jollie : a case study of the transference and adaptation of British social and political ideas of the Edwardian era to a colonial societyLowry, Daniel William January 1989 (has links)
This is an appraisal of the career of Ethel Tawse Jollie (1876-1950), the first woman parliamentarian in Southern Rhodesia, and the British Empire overseas, prolific writer and leading intellectual of her political generation who played a key role in the achievement of responsible government in Southern Rhodesia in 1923. As the founder and principal organiser of the Responsible Government Association she imported from Britain a singular political philosophy which made a lasting impression on Rhodesia's political character and social identity. She was an influential figure in British imperialist circles and in the women's suffrage controversy. No other Rhodesian politician had achieved such prominence in the metropole, or possessed such a thoroughly formed, comprehensive ideology, and the propaganda skills necessary to give it effect. The study traces the formation of her ideas within the intellectual milieu of pre-1914 Britain and - through her - its subsequent adaptation in Rhodesia; how, through her marriage to Archibald Colquhoun - explorer, writer and Cecil Rhodes's first Administrator of Mashonaland - she became steeped in the ideology of the Edwardian Radical Right - that reaction to imperial decline denoted by the slogan 'National Efficiency'. By 1915. when she arrived in Rhodesia, she had come to believe that by 1915, when she arrived in Rhodesia, she had come to believe that the salvation of the Empire lay in its 'patriotic' periphery where it was possible to create new societies on Radical Right principles. Both in and out of parliament she gave to Rhodesian public policy and identity a distinct Radical Right hue, which she further enhanced by her involvement in various extra parliamentary pressure groups. It is a life and times study and considerable use is made of contemporary ballads and novels in the belief that immersion in the atmosphere of the period is particularly useful in an intellectual biography of this kind. Comparisons are also made with other British peripheries notably Ulster, Canada and New Zealand. The study challenges the traditional view of Rhodesia as a neo-Victorian intellectual backwater; seeing it rather as a society which continued to import selectively ideas from elsewhere in the Empire. It should interest Commonwealth and - because of its central character - women's historians.
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The state, farmers and dairy farming in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), c.1890-1951Hove, Godfrey 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses dairy farming in colonial Zimbabwe/Southern Rhodesia as a lens to explore the
intersection of economic, social and environmental factors in colonial agriculture from the 1890s
until 1951, when a new regulatory framework was introduced for the industry. It examines the
complex and fluid interactions between the colonial state and farmers (both white and black),
and the manner in which these interactions shaped and reshaped policy within the context of the
local political economy and the changing global economic conditions. It examines the competing
interests of the colonial state and farmers, and how these tensions played out in the formulation
and implementation of dairy development policy over time. This thesis demonstrates that these
contestations profoundly affected the trajectory of an industry that started as a mere side-line to
the beef industry until it had become a central industry in Southern Rhodesia’s agricultural
economy by the late 1940s. Thus, besides filling a historiographical gap in existing studies of
Southern Rhodesia’s agricultural economy, the thesis engages in broader historiographical
conversations about settler colonial agricultural policy and the role of the state and farmers in
commercial agriculture. Given the fractured nature of colonial administration in Southern
Rhodesia, this study also discusses conflicts among government officials. It demonstrates how
these differences affected policy formulation and implementation, especially regarding African
commercial dairy production. This thesis also explores the impact of a segregationist agricultural
policy, particularly focusing on prejudices about the “African body” and hygiene. It shows how
this shaped the character of both African and white production trends. It demonstrates that
Africans were unevenly affected by settler policy, as some indigenous people continued to
compete with white farmers at a time when existing regulations were intended to exclude them
from the colonial dairy industry. It argues that although dairy farming had grown to be a strong
white-dominated industry by 1951, the history of dairy farming during the period under review
was characterised by contestations between the state and both white and African farmers. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis gebruik suiwelboerdery in koloniale Zimbabwe/Suid-Rhodesie as ’n lens om die
ekonomiese, sosiale en omgewingsgerigte kruispunte in koloniale landbou van omstreeks 1890 t
1951 toe ‘n nuwe regulatoriese raamwerk vir suiwelboerdery ingestel is te, ondersoek. Die
komplekse en vloeibare interaksies tussen die koloniale staat en boere (wit sowel as swart) en die
wyse waarop hierdie interaksies beleid binne die konteks van die plaaslike politieke ekonomie en
die globale ekonomiese omstandighede gevorm en hervorm het, word ondersoek. Hierbenewens
word gelet op die spanninge tussen die belange van die koloniale staat en die boere (wit sowel as
swart) en hoe hierdie spanning oor tyd in die formulering en implementering van suiwelbeleid
gemanifested het. Hierdie tesis demonstreer dat di spanninge en stryd ’n diepgaande uitwerking
gehad het op ’n bedryf wat aanvanklik as ondergeskik tot die vleisbedryf begin het, naar teen die
leat as ‘n sentrale veertigerjere bedryf in die Rhodesiëse landelike ekonomie uitgekristalliseer
het. Benewens die feit dat die proefakrif ’n historiografiese leemte in bestaande koloniale
Zimbabwe aangespreek, vorm dit ook deel van ’n breër historiografiese diskoers ten opsigte van
setlaar koloniale landbou in Zimbabwe en die rol van die staat en boere in kommersiële landbou.
Vanweё die gefragmenteerde aard van koloniale administrasie in Suid-Rhodesië, fokus die tesis
ook op die konflikte tussen regeringsamptenare en hoe hierdie geskille veral beleidsformulering
en implementering ten opsigte van swart kommersiële suiwelboerdery beïnvloed het. Vervolgens
word die uitwerking van ’n landboubeleid geliasear of segragasi onder die loep geneem met
spesiale verwysing na die geskiktheid van swartmense vir kommersiële suiwelboerdery en hoe
dit die aard en karakter van beide swart sowel as wit produksie tendense beïnvloed het. Daar
word aangedui dat swartmense nie eenvormig deur setlaarsbeleid geraak is nie aangesien van
hulle met wit boere meegeding het op ’n stadium toe die heersende regulasies daerop gemik was
oin baie van hulle uit die koloniale suiwelbedryfwit te slint. Die sentrale argument is dat hoewel
suiwelboerdery sterk wit gedomineerd was teen 1951, die geskiedenis van die bedryf gedurende
die tydperk onder bespreking gekenmerk is deur stryd en konflite tussen die staat en wit sowel as swart boere.
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The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.Punt, Eira. January 1979 (has links)
No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1979.
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A sociolinguistics analysis of school names in selected urban centres during the colonial period in Zimbabwe, 1890-1979Mamvura, Zvinashe January 2014 (has links)
This study analyses the different social variables that conditioned the naming of schools during the colonial period in Zimbabwe (1890-1979). The study collects and analyses the names given to schools in Salisbury (including Chitungwiza), Umtali and Fort Victoria the colonial period in Zimbabwe. The study adopts Geosemiotics, a theory propounded by Scollon and Scollon (2003), together with insights from Semantics, Semiotics and Pragmatics in the analysis of school names. Critical Discourse Analysis is used a method of data analysis. One of the main findings of the study is that place names are discourses of power which are used to express and legitimise power because they are part of the symbolic emblems of power. It was possible to ‘read’ the politics during the colonial period in Zimbabwe through the place names used in the colonial society. Both Europeans and Africans made conscious efforts to imbue public places with meanings. Overally, people who have access to power have ultimate control over place naming in any society. In this case, they manipulate place naming system in order to inscribe their own meanings and versions of history in the toponomastic landscape. The second finding is that place names are critical place-making devices that can be used to create imagined boundaries between people living in the same environment. Place names are useful discourses that index sameness and differences of people in a nation-state. Place names exist in interaction and kinship with other discourses in making places and imposing an identity on the landscape. Semiotics, Semantics and Pragmatics are instrumental in the appreciation of the meaning conveyed by school names. This study makes an important contribution to onomastic research in the sense that its findings can be generalised to other place naming categories during the colonial period in Zimbabwe. This study provides background information on how place naming was done during thecolonial period in Zimbabwe. This makes it significant because it provides insights on place naming in other states that went through the colonial experience, in Africa or elsewhere in the world. / African Languages
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A sociolinguistics analysis of school names in selected urban centres during the colonial period in Zimbabwe, 1890-1979Mamvura, Zvinashe 06 1900 (has links)
This study analyses the different social variables that conditioned the naming of schools during the colonial period in Zimbabwe (1890-1979). The study collects and analyses the names given to schools in Salisbury (including Chitungwiza), Umtali and Fort Victoria the colonial period in Zimbabwe. The study adopts Geosemiotics, a theory propounded by Scollon and Scollon (2003), together with insights from Semantics, Semiotics and Pragmatics in the analysis of school names. Critical Discourse Analysis is used a method of data analysis. One of the main findings of the study is that place names are discourses of power which are used to express and legitimise power because they are part of the symbolic emblems of power. It was possible to ‘read’ the politics during the colonial period in Zimbabwe through the place names used in the colonial society. Both Europeans and Africans made conscious efforts to imbue public places with meanings. Overally, people who have access to power have ultimate control over place naming in any society. In this case, they manipulate place naming system in order to inscribe their own meanings and versions of history in the toponomastic landscape. The second finding is that place names are critical place-making devices that can be used to create imagined boundaries between people living in the same environment. Place names are useful discourses that index sameness and differences of people in a nation-state. Place names exist in interaction and kinship with other discourses in making places and imposing an identity on the landscape. Semiotics, Semantics and Pragmatics are instrumental in the appreciation of the meaning conveyed by school names. This study makes an important contribution to onomastic research in the sense that its findings can be generalised to other place naming categories during the colonial period in Zimbabwe. This study provides background information on how place naming was done during thecolonial period in Zimbabwe. This makes it significant because it provides insights on place naming in other states that went through the colonial experience, in Africa or elsewhere in the world. / African Languages / D. Lit. et Phil. (African Languages)
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