scholarly journals The Cold War in South African History Textbooks

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Linda Chisholm ◽  
David Fig
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
South African ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
African History ◽  
The Cold War

Decoding the Visual Grammar of Selected South African History Textbooks

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Eszter Morgan
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
African History ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Instructional Texts ◽  
The Relationship

Since the 1990s researchers have explored the design features of instructional texts from a Vygotskian sociocultural perspective. This article draws on their work in order to formulate analytical questions. Selected examples from four South African eleventh grade history textbooks are analyzed in an attempt to understand how the application of design principles, or the lack thereof, affects the potential mediating function of the text for historical learning as a whole. The relationship between visual processing and analytical and affective thinking is introduced to the discussion. The article concludes by commenting on the sociocultural context of textbook production.

Yes, Minister: Reassessing South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975–1976

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Miller
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Civil War ◽  
South African ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Threat Perception ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Context ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The Cold War

In 1975–1976, South Africa's apartheid regime took the momentous step of intervening in the Angolan civil war to counter the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and its backers in Havana and Moscow. The failure of this intervention and the subsequent ignominious withdrawal had major repercussions for the evolution of the regime and the history of the Cold War in southern Africa. This article is the first comprehensive study of how and why Pretoria became involved. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources from South African archives as well as interviews with key protagonists, the article shows that the South African Defence Force and Defence Minister P. W. Botha pushed vigorously and successfully for deeper engagement to cope with security threats perceived through the prism of the emerging doctrine of “total onslaught.” South Africa's intervention in Angola was first and foremost the product of strategic calculations derived from a sense of threat perception expressed and experienced in Cold War terms, but applied and developed in a localized southern African context.

Working with the Cold War

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Ammert ◽  
Heather Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
Social Values ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Knowledge Types ◽  
Australian History ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

This article presents a comparative analysis of pupils’ activities dealing with the Cold War in Swedish and Australian history textbooks. By focusing on textbook activities to which pupils respond in relation to their learning of a particular topic, this study identifies knowledge types included in a selection of history textbooks. The study also focuses on the question whether, and if so how, social values are evident in activities concerning the Cold War. The authors develop a matrix that makes it possible to examine knowledge types and social values conveyed by activities. By analyzing textbook activities, this article exposes the hidden curriculum present in the textbooks on the basis of underlying and unstated values present in the activities, and at the same time identifies the way in which the selected textbooks incorporate these values.

African Files in Portuguese Archives

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 463-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bjerk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
African History ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
The Cold War

When I first mentioned to David Henige my plan to go to Portugal to do some archival research, he expressed the hope that it would be a somewhat more welcoming atmosphere than he had encountered in 1971, with armed soldiers patrolling the grounds. Indeed it was. I spent three weeks in Lisbon doing archival research in modern African history, with a specific interest in Tanzania. The Arquivo Histórico Diplomàtico (AHD) and the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (AHU) both proved to be rich archival sources kept by accessible and friendly staff.This paper is a brief and informal review of my research in the archives. Unfortunately, I did not survey the holdings of either of the archives I used, so I cannot speak to their scope, but the files on Africa are vast. The AHU, for example, claims over 6000 meters of documents, and not just for Portuguese colonies. They include materials dating to the sixteenth century and extensive intelligence and diplomatic materials for the twentieth century. I hope that this paper will give interested researchers a sense of the type of material available.In going to Portugal, I had the goal of finding out what archival material existed in Lisbon concerning relations between Portugal and Tanzania. Portuguese-Tanzanian relations were largely formed through the encounter over Mozambique. When Tanzania gained independence, it began to support the Mozambican liberation movements, which was very upsetting to Portugal, especially in the context of the Cold War. The Portuguese archives proved very fruitful. I found hundreds of documents that were of great interest, including documents relating directly to my dissertation topic dealing with a diplomatic incident concerning some forged letters that implicated Portugal in a plot to overthrow the Tanzanian government.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Banks ◽  
Robyn d'Avignon ◽  
Asif Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
African History ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Global Entanglement ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Discrete Channels ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThis special themed section examines the multilayered engagements between Africa and the Soviet Union as a central, if overlooked, global encounter of the mid-twentieth century. We call this worldview and the entanglements it generated the “African-Soviet Modern,” an asymmetrical combination of aspiration, materiality, and practice that was rooted in diverse African states and in the Soviet Union. As an analytical category, the African-Soviet Modern speaks to the gap between the grand rhetorical and ideological scope of the Cold War moment and the relatively discrete channels in which it materialized, which gave this mode of thinking a particular vitality and instability. African-Soviet entanglements unfolded in an expansive and uneven geography that incorporated diverse regions of Africa, the USSR, and beyond. Avoiding the temporal and spatial silos of either Soviet or African history, the four essays in this section focus on the spaces where African and Soviet students, politicians, and scientists interacted with one another, creating “connected chronologies” and complementary archives of evidence. Weaving together documentary and oral sources, these articles recover a global entanglement that was energized by unbounded political, economic, and technological aspiration, but that produced an uneven material footprint in newly independent African states.

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