Native Life In South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation. Sol T. Plaatje provides an account of the origins of this crucially important piece of legislation and a devastating description of its immediate effects.

Native life in South Africa: Before and since the European war and the Boer Rebellion

Plaatje, Sol. T

Ohio University Press

<div> The accompaniment to a landmark exhibition of MacArthur Fellow Aminah Robinson's work, which revolved around her family and community, African American history, travel, and the stories her elders told her. When Aminah Robinson died in 2015 and entrusted her entire estate to the Columbus Museum of Art, it became clear that her art, her house and its furnishings, and her extensive writings would constitute a compelling major exhibition and book. This catalog invites readers to enter Robinson's house and engage with the art and journals the museum's staff members have documented during the last five years. Robinson embraced the concept of raggin' on: the idea that her work will endure perpetually because each new person that encounters it will add new meaning. This exhibition's title reflects the hope that the perspectives of visitors and readers will ensure Robinson's work never ends. The book's cover image represents Robinson's Themba series, which consumed her for many years until the end of her life; it captures in dramatic fashion the complexity of both her own hopeful spirit and an inner rage that propelled her to write and make art. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art. </div>

Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson’s House and Journals

Arts & Photography

Genshaft, Carole

History & Criticism

Cunningham of Hyndhope

WARNER, Oliver

Destination Denver City: The South Platte Trail

As rivers go, the South Platte is poorly arranged -- often shallow, sprawling into undisciplined streams and muddy channels. But it was a major source of water for migrants from the east: first buffalo, then Indians, then whites. And, along its southern bank, a major trail developed in the 1850s and 1860s. The Cheyennes and Arapahoes, following the bison, came first, sometime in the first or second quarter of the nineteenth century. Fur traders arrived soon afterwards, the first of many whites moving into eastern Colorado to explore, hunt, mine, farm, and trade. Increasing migration set the stage for conflict, and the concentration of activity along the South Platte trail made it a focus of hostilities in the high plains region during the Indian war of the 1860s, until the coming of the Union Pacific Railroad ended the usefulness of this primitive thoroughfare. Drawing on fragments of report and legend, journals and correspondence of explorers, settlers and military me

Monahan, Doris

History

Cage of Fireflies

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Rare to find as a hardcover. No dust cover. Personal inscription on first top corner page. Binding is intact with minimal wear and some fading. Has that wonderful old book smell with light fading of pages.

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

James, Madison

Rules & Procedures

The Focusing Artifice: The Poetry of Robert Browning

Roma A. King

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... gotten worthies, though he sometimes forgets to address any remarks to them after first having dragged them forth to furnish a text for his discussion. In his talk with Bernard de Mandeville he continues the ever-fresh topic of the relations between good and evil, already, one would think, thoroughly treated in the last of" Ferishtah's Fancies." However, though the conclusions are identical with those reached before, it is here presented in a guise sufficiently different to enthrall the attention. From the ninth stanza to the end is a passage that may be compared with "The Sun" for its suggestion of the double significance of the sun-symbol, its scientific aspect as the cause of cosmic evolution, and its spiritual significance as a symbol of the cause of mental evolution; but in this the thought rolls out in a splendid burst of rich complex music rarely equalled in Browning since the magnificent closing passage of "Paracelsus" describing similar grand processes of nature. Subtle moral problems, one of love, the other of statecraft, are the central thoughts of "Daniel Bartoli" and "Bubb Dodington." The first has, aside from its moral problem, all the charm of a romantic story; but the second is such a fiendishly clever bit of sarcasm and sophistry combined that it requires one's wits to be at their sharpest to detect all the implications. The remaining parleys all touch upon some phase of art. The text of the preachment in "Christopher Smart" might be Emerson's saying, "Unless to thought is added will, Apollo is an imbecile." The poet who depends upon sudden inspirations for the direct revealment of beauty will accomplish little for the good of humanity. To this must be added the will to use these revelations of strength and beauty as a means to an end, rather than t...

The Complete Works of Robert Browning Volume I: With Variant Readings And Annotations (Volume 1) (Complete Works Robert Browning)

BROWNING., ROBERT

Behavior and conscious experience;: A conceptual analysis

Smith, Kendon Rasey

In the essays brought together in this volume Shestov presents a profound and original analysis of the thought of three of the most brilliant literary figures of nineteenth-century Europe—Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche—all of whom had a decisive influence on the development of his own philosophy. According to Shestov, the greatness of these writers consists in their deep probing into the question of the meaning of life and the problems of human suffering, evil, and death. That all three of them at times abandoned their probing and lapsed into the banality of preaching does not diminish their stature but shows only that there are limits to man’s capacity for looking unflichingly at reality.

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche (The Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Teaching & Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Philosophy of Tragedy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lev, Shestov

Philosophy

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