1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968176703321

Autore

MacKenzie John M

Titolo

The Scots in South Africa : ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914 / / John M. MacKenzie with Nigel R. Dalziel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-274-8

1-84779-446-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Studies in imperialism

Altri autori (Persone)

DalzielNigel

Disciplina

968.0049163

Soggetti

Scots - South Africa - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1. Introduction: imperialism and identities; 2. The Scots presence at the Cape; 3. Radicals, evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial autocracy; 4. Scots missions and the frontier; 5. Continuing migration to Natal, the Cape and the Transvaal; 6. Professionals: the Church and education; 7. The professionals: the environment,medicine, business and radicals; 8. Maintaining Scots identity; 9. Conclusion; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. The Scots, as in North America and Australasia, constituted an important element in the patterns of White settlement. They were already present in the area of Dutch East India Company rule and, after the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, their numbers rose dramatically. They were



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958643703321

Autore

Ulmer Gregory L

Titolo

Electracy [[electronic resource] ] : Gregory L. Ulmer's Textshop Experiments

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aurora, : The Davies Group, Publishers, 2015

ISBN

1-943047-03-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Critical studies in the humanities Electracy

Altri autori (Persone)

SaperCraig J

VitanzaVictor J

Disciplina

809/.93356

Soggetti

Digital media -- Technological innovations

English language -- Rhetoric -- Computer-assisted instruction

Humanities -- Study and teaching

Literature and technology

Literature and the Internet

Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Influence

Technology -- Language

Ulmer, Gregory L., -- 1944-

Literature and technology - Study and teaching

Humanities - Technological innovations

Digital media - Computer-assisted instruction - Rhetoric

English language - Influence

Modernism (Aesthetics) - Language

Technology

Interactive multimedia

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Series page Critical Studies in the Humanities -- Title page -- Copyright © 2015 Gregory L. Ulmer. -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One  Barthes's Body of



Knowledge -- I. The Biographeme. -- II. Theoretical Art. -- III. The Sting -- IV. For a New Academic Writing. -- Notes -- Chapter Two  Textshop for Post(e)pedagogy -- LEC(RI)TURE -- MODELS -- AS-SIGN-MENTS -- Notes -- Chapter Three  Teletheory: A Mystory -- The Future of Theory -- A Promising Essay -- Narrative Explanation -- Theory Diegesis -- The Pensive Essay -- To Be Continued -- Works Cited -- Chapter Four  Textshop for Psychoanalysis:  On DeProgramming Freshmen Platonists -- I. The Humanities Laboratory -- II. Surrealism as Invention -- III. Assignments -- IV. Evaluation -- V. Mystory (The Subject of Knowledge) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter Five  The Heuretics of Alice's Valise -- Notes -- Chapter Six  The Spirit HandOn the Index of Pedagogy and Propaganda -- Works Cited -- Chapter Seven  One Video Theory (some assembly required) -- Against explanation -- The television set -- "Believe it or not" -- Mythologies -- The public sphere -- Grammatology -- The subject of television -- Alienation -- Memory television -- Out of the fly-bottle -- Works Cited -- Chapter Eight  The Object of Post-Criticism -- Collage/Montage -- Grammatology -- Allegory -- Parasite/ Saprophyte -- Notes -- Chapter Nine  The Making of "Derrida at the Little Bighorn"An Interview -- Chapter Ten   The Internet and Its Double -- The Donor -- Voice in Electracy -- The Cough -- Mise-en-abyme -- Gift -- Mourning -- The Abject -- Imaging -- Works Cited -- Chapter Eleven  Choramancy: A User's Guide -- Part One: The Image Crisis -- Part Two: Consulting the Zone -- Part Three: Miami Ad-Vice -- Part Four: Drawing Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Twelve  Handbook For a Theory Hobby.

Chapter Thirteen  Emergent Ontologies: A lecture by Gregory Ulmer -- Index.