Browsing Doctoral Degrees (History) by Title
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Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff : sakeman en politikus aan die Kaap 1859 –1931
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a biography of Sir David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, Bt, of Cape Town, who was born in 1859 and died in 1931. It covers his whole life span, from his birth as a poor farm boy in the district ... -
Sir William Milton : a leading figure in public school games, colonial politics and imperial expansion 1877-1914
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)This investigation is aimed at providing a better understanding of William Milton’s influence on society in southern Africa over a period of more than thirty years. In the absence of any previous detailed work, it will ... -
A social history of African dog-owners in Zimbabwe, 1890-2018
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the history of human-dog relations in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2018. It argues that from the pre-colonial period, dogs have had a variety of significant but shifting ... -
A socio-enviromental history of commercial tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, c.1893-2000s
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the relationship between tobacco farmers (both black and white) and the environment in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe and how this relationship shaped physical landscapes, agricultural ... -
South African Prisoner-Of-War experience during and after World War II : 1939-c.1950
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis narrates and analyses the experiences of a sample of South Africans who were captured during the Second World War. The research is based on oral testimony, memoirs, archival evidence and to ... -
The state, farmers and dairy farming in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), c.1890-1951
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)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 ... -
"Stinky and smelly - but profitable" : the Cape guano trade, c.1843 - 1910
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Soil infertility and concomitant low levels of food security under conditions of population pressure and land scarcity have been, and still remain, one of society’s most daunting challenges. Over time, ... -
“A superstitious respect for the soil”? : environmental history, social identity and land ownership – a case study of forced removals from Lady Selborne and their ramifications, c.1905 to 1977
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)This thesis presents, from the perspective of socio-environmental history, a case study in forced removals and their ramifications from 1905 to 1977. The focus area is a township called Lady Selborne in South Africa, near ... -
Surfing, gender and politics : identity and society in the history of South African surfing culture in the twentieth-century.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a socio-cultural history of the sport of surfing from 1959 to the 2000s in South Africa. It critically engages with the “South African Surfing History Archive”, collected in the course of ... -
Van Afrikanerkultuur tot korporatief : die geskiedenis van Sanlam se hoofkantoor-personeelkorps 1918 – 2008
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African company Sanlam was founded in 1918 as a direct result of the growth of Afrikaner nationalism. An objective with the establishment of Sanlam as a life insurance company was the settlement ... -
'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die residensiele argitektuur van die Victoriaanse periode in Engeland en Suid-Afrika : die impak van abstrakte determinante op uiterlike vormgewing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Architecture is a complex concept, and as such many factors contribute to its creation. These factors include geographical, economical and climatological aspects, but above all architecture is formed ... -
Die volksvertelling as kultuuruiting met besondere verwysing na Afrikaans
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1981)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: no abstract available -
Die voorkoms van wit armoede in Oudtshoorn tussen 1914 en 1937
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Oudtshoorn is considered to be the capital of the Little Karoo and is positioned in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The climate varies from extremely high temperature (42 degrees C) during summer ... -
Wartime propaganda in the Union of South Africa, 1939 - 1945
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: After the First World War (1914-1918) – the first “total war” in modern history, where whole populations, not just military forces, became participants in the war effort, the potential power of propaganda ... -
William Fehr (1892-1968) and his contribution to the study of South African history and cutlure
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to establish which determining influences in the evolution of the valuable Africana collection in Castle Good Hope and Rust-en-Vreugd motivated the German Cape-born merchant ... -
“… wood carved by the knife of circumstance…”? : Cape rapists and rape in South Africa, c. 1910-1980
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: “… wood carved by the knife of circumstance…”?: Cape Rapists and Rape in South Africa, c. 1910-1980, interrogates the notion that rapists are a product of an inherent nature and/or are nurtured by their ...
