A Commonwealth of Knowledge
Title | A Commonwealth of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Dubow |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191516341 |
A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the cultivation of knowledge has served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. In a sustained commentary on modern South African historiography, the significance of `broad' South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers - is emphasized. A Commonwealth of Knowledge also engages with wider comparative debates. These include the nature of imperial and colonial knowledge systems; the role of intellectual ideas and concepts in constituting ethnic, racial, and regional identities; the dissemination of ideas between imperial metropole and colonial periphery; the emergence of amateur and professional intellectual communities; and the encounter between imperial and indigenous or local knowledge systems. The book has broad scope. It opens with a discussion of civic institutions (eg. museums, libraries, botanical gardens and scientific societies), and assesses their role in creating a distinctive sense of Cape colonial identity; the book goes on to discuss the ways in which scientific and other forms of knowledge contributed to the development of a capacious South Africanist patriotism compatible with continued membership of the British Commonwealth; it concludes with reflections on the techno-nationalism of the apartheid state and situates contemporary concerns like the `African Renaissance', and responses to HIV/AIDS, in broad historical context.
A Commonwealth of Knowledge
Title | A Commonwealth of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Dubow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199296634 |
This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography.
Towards a Commonwealth of Learning
Title | Towards a Commonwealth of Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Expert Group on Commonwealth Co-operation in Distance Education and Open Learning |
Publisher | Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780850923117 |
Report of the Expert Group on Commonwealth Co-operation in Distance Education and Open Learning that proposes the creation of a University of the Commonwealth for co-operation in distance education, itself working closely with, and forging an effective partnership between, a wide variety of institutions through the Commonwealth. The Group shows not only how technologies could be harnessed on a Commonwealth-wide basis, but how teaching materials could be pooled and shared to become a Commonwealth-wide resource, freeing individual learners throughout the Commonwealth from the constraints of distance and the need to study at a present place or time.
A World of Knowledge
Title | A World of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Commonwealth of Learning |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 62 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Distance education |
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The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Title | The Scientific Imagination in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | William Beinart |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108837085 |
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Commonwealth Knowledge Network
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The Community of Science, Inc. provides access to the Commonwealth Knowledge Network, a collaborative effort of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Community of Science that links researchers with one another.
The American Commonwealth
Title | The American Commonwealth PDF eBook |
Author | James Bryce |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 772 |
Release | 1891 |
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