New Contree: 2015 No 74
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2024-03-28T15:25:55ZSarkin-Hughes, J. 2011. Kaiser Wilhelm II’s genocide: The Herero’s versus the General and the settlers. [Book review]
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Sarkin-Hughes, J. 2011. Kaiser Wilhelm II’s genocide: The Herero’s versus the General and the settlers. [Book review]
Pitso, Pule
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZBulpin, T.V. 2015. Storm over the Transvaal. [Book review]
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Bulpin, T.V. 2015. Storm over the Transvaal. [Book review]
Hall, Arthur
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZVarious directions in regional history
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Various directions in regional history
Riukulehto, Sulevi
History and geography are sister sciences, though their connection is not
always close. Over the last twenty years, the regional-history point of view
has begun to command a place in research reports, projects, history books,
conferences and other scientific outputs. Thus far, the concept is still
unestablished. The new regionally oriented directions in historiography are
so recent that a generally recognized orthodoxy has yet to be adopted. The
various elements from localism to globalization can still be seen. What is a
region? There are competing views concerning the definition and criteria. In
this article, the various meanings of the concept are made more visible by
studying the recent discourse of regional history. At least five main meanings
can be differentiated in research literature.
The regional-history discourses have different origins and they have
developed independently, yet they also have much in common: National states
do not have any special role in research work. Regions are interpreted as being
evolutionary processes. Time and space (history and region) are connected in
research questions. Borders, the roles of minorities and otherness are popular
subjects of research. In a global world we have a need for this kind of vision
of history, a regional history that exceeds the national level of historiography,
studying regions that are not necessarily nations or its administrative
subdivisions.
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915
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“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915
Thompson, Paul
The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee was an extra legal body
which discovered disloyal persons of German extraction in the city following
the riots caused by the German torpedoing of the British passenger liner
Lusitania in May 1915. A public indignation meeting created the Committee
and gave it a broad mandate to ferret out suspect enemy aliens. The European
polity of Pietermaritzburg was essentially British; there were relatively few
Germans, so the Committee worked quickly. It discovered no disloyalty, but
it did discover much intimidation by so-called patriots, which it condemned.
It is easy to see its work as an anti-German witch-hunt, but it also served as
safety valve for passions inflamed by the Lusitania atrocity.
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