"The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by have resulted in revised notions of Britishness and British literature. Yet literary anthologies remain anchored to an archaic Anglo-English interpretation of British literature. This generalist cultural study is a fascinating glimpse into Britain's changing identity as reflected in 20th and 21st century British literature"--Provided by publisher
The Department of Archives and History began in 1989 to issue curriculum materials highlighting particular documents from the Archives. These resource packets provided topical documents, relevant illustrations, historical context, and exercises for classroom use. In total, the Archives produced eight of these curriculum packets. These packets include: No. 1. Jehu Jones : free black entrepreneur -- no. 2. Jones : time of crisis, time of change -- no. 3. The Spanish in South Carolina : unsettled frontier -- no. 4. The Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina, 1933-1942 -- no. 5. Heritage education -- no. 6. -- South Carolina African Americans in the Civil War : two sides to a story -- no. 7. Community as classroom : an oral history resource publication -- no. 8. The changing face of South Carolina politics.
Enter any additional information or requests for the Library here. ; Background: Years of South African legislation on traditional healing practices preceded the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No. 22, 2007). The first laws date as far back as 1895. It seems as if the intention of the pre-1994 legislation was not to promote traditional healing practices, but to limit the power of the traditional healer. Aims: The study aims to describe the history that came before Act No. 22 of 2007. Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive study in line with the modern-day historical approach of investigation and reviewing research. The emphasis is on the use of present-day documentation, like articles, books and newspapers, as primary sources to reflect on the development and promulgation of Act No. 22. The findings are offered in narrative format. Results: Various political and legal processes can be identified as contributing to the promulgation of the Act in 2007, especially after the 1994. Conclusion: It had taken more than 45 years of unofficial and seven years of official struggle to get Act No. 22 promulgated in 2007. Today, nearly a decade after promulgation, it has still not been fully enacted.
This thesis analyzes Franz Kafka's representation of public space by situating his short fiction in the context of how Prague's public spaces transformed around the fin-de-siècle. During the Czech National Revival, the Czech educated and semi-educated middle-class sought to transform Prague from a nationally undifferentiated space, shared by both Czech- and German-speakers, to one exclusively promoting a Czech national identity. The German middle-class responded by also publicly expressing its own national identity and values. Indeed, middle-class civic society in nineteenth century and early-twentieth century Prague brought changes to urban space to create distinct spaces oriented around the language and symbols of German or Czech nationalism. In these pieces, Kafka responds to a host of themes defining public life that I have separated into three distinct, yet related pairs: belonging/unbelonging to public spaces and community, possession/purification of public spaces, and power/humiliation of ethnic groups. All three were constantly at play and at stake as Prague eventually became a distinctly Czech capital. "An Old Manuscript" ("Ein Altes Blatt") essentially concentrates on the relationship between public space and group identity formation and, as a result, evokes not only the nationalization of Prague's public spaces, but also the mirror-culture developing in the city as Czech and German nationalists increasingly mimicked each other in public life. "An Imperial Message" ("Eine Kaiserliche Botschaft") and "The Burrow" ("Der Bau") scrutinize the privileged position that German culture and identity held in the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the lens of imperial and nationalized spaces. Lastly, I will offer a reading of "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" ("Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse") as a narrative whose principle concern is the way nineteenth and twentieth century mass politics re-defined Prague's public spaces.
