Twentieth Century
The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. Unlike most century years, the year 2000 was a leap year, and the second century leap year in the Gregorian calendar after 1600. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts; intergovernmental organizations …
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Laws.Africa · 27 May 2022 English
cities has significantly increased during the twentieth century, both politically and economically, as is …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2022 English
The Royal Agricultural Sociey of Natal (RAS) is one of KwaZulu-Natal's oldest and best-known institutions. This volume provides a detailed overview of two earlier accounts of its history since 1851 …
far-seeing residents of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In so doing, they contributed so much to … elsewhere during the nineteenth and early twentieth century Pietermaritzburg’s residents consciously sought …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2021 English
HALF the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead: this much-quoted, wry comment is generally attributed to the satirical writer Tom Sharpe who worked in Pietermarizburg in the …
by three names: Alan Hattersley in the mid-twentieth century; and John Laband and Robert Haswell in the …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 19 November 2020 English
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and Sierra Leone more broadly in the mid-twentieth century. It was for his contributions to scholarship …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English
This history of one of the earliest nineteenth-century mission stations in Natal traces the transformation in the lives of a community that settled first at Indaleni near Richmond and later …
national endeavour. By the beginning of the twentieth century already, Edendale and other missionary institutions … enter industrialised society in the early twentieth century, not as workers, but as a petty bourgeoisie …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English
The journalist Mary Elizabeth Martens (1870–1939), who had grown up in the Colony of Natal under Responsible Government, published two novels in 1911 and 1915: A Woman of Small Account …
male counterpart in the opening years of the twentieth century. Under the same title – Black Peril, a synonym … Pietermaritzburg in the first decade of the twentieth century. 17 Jeremy C. Martens, ‘Settler homes, manhood … social meaning of “black peril” in early twentieth-century South Africa’ Journal of Southern African … social meaning of “black peril” in early twentieth-century South Africa’: 445–448, 453. 57 Hale, ‘Racist … social meaning of “black peril” in early twentieth-century South Africa’: 442, 448–451; Hale, ‘Racist …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 31 October 2018 English
Microsoft Word - The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies - September 2018 - Final Version.docx The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies – Volume, Edition 2, 2018. Welcome to the Journal …
can countries in the last quarter of the twentieth century. He widens the geographic and historic a …
Laws.Africa · 16 March 2018 English
the early efforts of the first half of the twentieth century to the most recent update on its conservation …
Laws.Africa · 9 March 2018 English
the early efforts of the first half of the twentieth century to the most recent update on its conservation … than 60 individuals at the beginning of the twentieth century. These animals were isolated in three locations: …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 10 November 2017 English
In the nineteenth century, Freetown, the principal city of the Colony of Sierra Leone, was a cosmopolitan centre which attracted African, European, and American merchants who sought to trade in …
eminent historian of Sierra Leone in the twentieth century, was probably the first scholar to detai … WN., 7 April, 1934. Culp, Daniel Wallace, Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought … Sherbro with the surname ‘Cohen’. In the early twentieth century, there was also the Mons. Cohen Brothers which … ish relatives in England throughout the twentieth century. After several years of engaging in trade in West Africa … maintained business operations until the twentieth century. Lionel Hart The life of Lionel Hart is …