The public and private life of Sol Plaatje

There has been an upswing in attention to South African biography in the past few decades, with a welcome trend towards remaking or revising the canon of important figures from the South African past. This has included edited collections of the works of prominent individuals, and notable among these have been early-twentieth century black African politicians and writers. Historical Publications Southern Africa (renamed from its previous moniker, the Van Riebeeck Society) has published four edited collections of the writings of such individuals since 2008, including Isaac Williams Wauchope, Richard Victor Solope Thema, and A.B. Xuma. A Life in Letters, a collection of Solomon T. Plaatje's correspondence, is the fourth such volume in just over a decade. There are 260 letters, written from 1896 to 1932, included in the book. Most are in English, but some are in Setswana, Dutch/Afrikaans, and a few are in German. Although a number of the letters are from the collections of the Cullen Library at the University of the Witwatersrand, the reviewer counted twenty-seven different collections across three continents. The book is thus an excellent resource not only for historians, but also for students and the general public who now have access to a wide range of Plaatje's thoughts, opinions, and emotions that are evident in his letters.

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Apologo. In onore di Franco Ferrarotti

SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE ◽

10.3280/sr2012-099007 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 127-140

Author(s):

Mario Aldo Toscano

Keyword(s):

Private Life ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Starting from one of Franco Ferrarotti's latest publications Atman. Il respiro del bosco (Ed. Empiria, Rome, 2012), this essay develops on the basis of the considerations in the last sections of the text, to which we refer. The interpretation key to this note, purposefully hermeneutic though unveiled in its conclusions, relates to the return to nature. The transition from culture to nature and to the nature of the trees is not seen, in the long trajectory described by Franco Ferrarotti, as a «regression», but rather as the achievement of a wisdom able to contemplate sine ira ac studio (without anger or concern) the enormous shortfallings and decline of the public and private life in our country. The solitude of the «naturalized» thought brings a glimpse of hope, in that memory resumes its course no more towards the past but towards the future. Ferrarotti's "lessons» interpret the dramatic sequences of our history, remain in the atmospheres of thought, and are «received» as such, fertile sources of underground action.

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Fount of Deep Culture: Legacies of theJames Stuart Archivein South African Historiography

History in Africa ◽

10.1017/s0361541300003156 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 87-106

Author(s):

Benedict Carton

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

South African ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Southern Africa ◽

African History ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Historical Interpretation ◽

The Past ◽

Deep Culture ◽

The University

The 2001 launch of the fifth volume of theJames Stuart Archivereinforces this publication's reputation as a mother lode of primary evidence. TheArchive'sexistence is largely due to the efforts of two editors, Colin De B. Webb and John Wright, who transformed a tangle of notes into lucid text. They deciphered the interviews that Natal colonist James Stuart conducted with a range of informants, many of them elderly isiZulu-speaking men. Transcribed by Stuart between the 1890s and 1920s, these discussions often explored in vivid detail the customs, lore, and lineages of southern Africa. Although references to theArchiveabound in revisionist histories of southern Africa, few scholars have assessed how testimonies recorded by Stuart have critically influenced such pioneering research. Fewer still have incorporated the compelling views of early twentieth-century cultural change that Stuart's informants bring to a post-apartheid understanding of South Africa's past.Well before the University of Natal Press published volume 5, the evidence presented in theArchivehad already led scholars of South African history into fertile, unmarked terrain. One example of groundbreaking data can be found in the statements of volume 4's master interpreter of Zulu power, Ndukwana kaMbengwana. His observations of the past anchor recent studies that debunk myths surrounding the early-nineteenth-century expansion of Shaka's kingdom. Ever timely, the endnotes in volume 5 discuss these reappraisals of historical interpretation and methodology. Editor John Wright elaborates in his preface: “By the time we picked up work on volume 5, we were starting to take note … that oral histories should be seen less as stories containing a more or less fixed ‘core’ of facts than as fluid narratives whose content could vary widely.”

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Knowledge and Social Networks in the Construction of Elite Lawyers in Venezuela

SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO ◽

10.3280/sd2009-003006 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 113-135

Author(s):

Manuel A. Gňmez

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Networks ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Group ◽

Justice System ◽

Political Transition ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

Personal Connections

This article describes the rise of Venezuelan lawyers as members of the country's intellectual and social leadership, and their notable influence throughout different historic periods, from their key contribution to the consolidation of the country's political and intellectual leadership during the nineteenth century, to their emergence as power brokers bridging the public and private sectors during the economic and social expansions that took place during most of the twentieth century. This work also explains how, in spite of the radical political transition that took place in the late 1990s and which led to the disappearance of the traditional elites, the new regime created the conditions for the emergence of new networks in similar fashion to the ones that existed in the past, revealing that regardless of which particular social group is in power personal connections remain vital in making the justice system work, and the presence of lawyers is very important.

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THE SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES —FONDO RESERVADO OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARCOS CENTRAL LIBRARY, LIMA, PERU

RBM A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage ◽

10.5860/rbm.6.2.248 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 108-123 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alberto Loza Nehmad

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Rare Book ◽

Public And Private ◽

Library System ◽

The Past ◽

San Marcos ◽

The Creation ◽

Manuscript Collections ◽

The University

The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) was founded in 1551 in Lima, Peru, and for centuries has remained the major university in the country. But during the past several decades, a number of other universities, both public and private, have been created in Lima, and San Marcos now shares with them a space that, until the mid-twentieth century, was almost exclusively its own. Today, the rare book and manuscript collections within the library system are among the most important in the country. A recent development has been the creation of the Sala de Investigaciones Bibliográficas-Fondo Reservado,1 which contains . . .

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The Emotional Side of Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany (Theory and Example)

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938900009997 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 127-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anne-Charlott Trepp

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Private Life ◽

Historical Change ◽

Historical Research ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

Family And Household ◽

Long Time ◽

Anglo American

For a long time, the emotional, more intimate and private spheres of life have not been taken seriously by historians. Only the public side of life has been considered to be a legitimate subject for scholars. Disregard of “the private” is as yet not a practice of the past, in particular when traditional historians are concerned. In spite of the “new, wide-ranging anthropological orientation” of historiography in the last few years, the marginalization of private life is, (in contrast to French and Anglo-American historical research) still the norm in Germany. The reasons for this disinterest in the private are numerous, but lie primarily in the tenaciously held, often not openly expressed, assumption that the nature of the private is in itself ahistorical. In contrast to the public, (a correlation considered to be dualistic) the private is seen as an anthropological constant, “timeless” and universal, simply a part of “nature.” The private, used synonymously for the spheres of marriage, family, and household, thus was placed beyond history, and therefore beyond historical change. This more than anything else determined that women had no “history” (Geschichtslosigkeit)—their inherited place was, after all, to be found within the context of family and household. Against this background, the binary concept of public and private appeared to be a promising heuristic tool for tracing women in history for quite sometime.

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Οι "Κατηχήσεις" του Μιχαήλ Χωνιάτη. Χρονολόγηση και ιστορική προσέγγιση

BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA ◽

10.12681/byzsym.981 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Καλλιόπη ΜΑΥΡΟΜΜΑΤΗ

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Private Life ◽

Font Size ◽

Public And Private ◽

Social Fabric ◽

The Public ◽

12Th Century ◽

The Social ◽

The University

THE CATECHISMS OF MICHAEL CHONIATES. DATING AND HISTORICAL APPROACH The Catechisms of Michael Choniates, archbishop of Athens, are included in Spyridon Lampros’ Archive, who first studied the sources in 1906 and transcribed the texts from the manuscript Mosquensis Synodalis 218 (olim 230) and 219 (olim 262). Although he prepared a critical edition, he did not proceed with publishing. Eventually, his work has been digitized and the researcher can visit the Archive online through the website of the Laboratory of Digital Recording of the Public and Private Life of the Byzantines of the University of Athens (http://lamprosarcheio.arch.uoa.gr). The Catechisms are mainly, yet not exclusively, works of religious ethics; they also address the socioeconomic issues of the city of Athens at the end of the 12th century, and thus can be used as a supplementary source for this period. Indeed, the Catechisms offer a comprehensive account of the burdens endured by the Athenians, caused by the exploitative activities of state tax officers, usurers and pirates. On a different perspective, Choniates argues how adverse social conditions, such as poverty, immigration, and land tresspassing, modulate the social fabric and interpersonal relations. Although many of these issues are omitted or very briefly mentioned in other texts, they are clarified in the Catechisms.

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Making a New Aristocracy: The Antiqui Mores at the Service of Augustan Politics

Num. 39 (n.s.) – Dicembre 2021 – Fasc. 2 - Lexis ◽

10.30687/lexis/2724-1564/2021/01/007 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Francesca Rohr Vio

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Private Life ◽

Ruling Class ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

Res Publica

In his reorganization of the State, Augustus restored the patrimony of values on which the senatorial aristocracy had founded its power in the res publica and he especially ensured the family’s central role. For this purpose he identified behavior exempla in the past of Rome and in his own domus and promoted a series of laws to regulate the public and private life of citizens. His aim was to affect morality and birthrate, but also to create a new ruling class: the homines novi would integrate with the ancient aristocracy through marriages and common descendants and this new senatorial class would operate according to the guidelines that had guided the leaders of the history of Rome.

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Nine Centuries of Man

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403894.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Gender Expectations ◽

Court Records ◽

The Past ◽

Wide Range ◽

Police Reports ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Scottish History ◽

Late Twentieth Century

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries? Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ‘hard man’, has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of masculinity in a wider context. This interdisciplinary collection examines a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, exploring the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romances, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men – work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce – the book also illustrates the range of masculinities that affected or were internalised by men. Together, the chapters illustrate some of the ways Scotland’s gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how, more generally, masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history

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Marketing Town Centres: Retailing and Town Centre Management

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1080/13575270500053282 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 183-204 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Gary Warnaby ◽

David Bennison ◽

Barry J. Davies

Keyword(s):

Marketing Strategies ◽

Place Marketing ◽

Marketing Practice ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Wide Range ◽

Town Centre ◽

The Uk ◽

Consensual Approach

The role of town centre management (TCM) schemes in the UK has expanded to incorporate a more overt and explicit focus on marketing and promotion. This paper considers the marketing/promotional activities of TCM schemes in the UK. TCM schemes operate at the interface of the public and private sectors. The implications of this are discussed, including the need for a consensual approach by a wide range of urban stakeholders, and the actual activities undertaken, influenced by the funding imperative under which such schemes operate (which impacts on the feasibility of certain activities and the efforts made to evaluate them). Comparisons are drawn between specific place marketing practice by TCM schemes and wider place marketing strategies.

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"Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden, aber die Heimat Fremde."(Alfred Polgar)- Überlegungen zum Jahr des interkulturellen Dialogs 2008

Glottodidactica An International Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.14746/gl.2008.34.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 9-17

Author(s):

Stephan Wolting

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Private Life ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Intercultural Communications ◽

Foreign Assignment

The present article tries to attract attention to the connection between the idea of the European Commision to create in 2008 a Year of the interculturaal dialogue and empiric studies in researching of being abroad. It will be one of the most important purposes in future to develop the studies in intercultural communications in the premise of consulting, coaching and mediation for foreign assignment or a deployment abroad. In this fields there's no doubt that there's a need for focussing new researches on the public and private life of employers abroad or on that what's called the working migration.

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