Neil Parsons
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147124 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Parsons |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Parsons |
| FIRMA | PARSONS N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Botswana |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Fulfilling his debt to civilization
The Land of Mystery (1920) was a melodrama movie based on a fictionalized life of Vladimir Lenin, made by the American filmmaker Harold Marvin Shaw. Shaw had previously made drama films with wartime propaganda content in Britain and South Africa. The Land of Mystery was financed by Russian exile Boris Said, and the story was written by Basil Thomson, Britain's Director of Intelligence. It was partly filmed in a rush on location in war-torn Lithua…
Towards a Broader Southern African History
The first Southern African Historical Society meeting outside the Union or Republic of South Africa is an opportunity to look wider than national histories, and forward as well as back. This paper raises nine points for the production of public as well as scholarly history. The need for historical studies to burst out of national barriers. What is or has been Southern Africa as a region? The need for caution in using overly-fixed categories of id…
Nation-Building Movies Made in South Africa (1916–18)
This paper examines three major feature films made in South Africa in 1916–18, and still surviving in archives. All three films were directed and/or scripted by Harold Marvin Shaw. De Voortrekkers/ Winning a Continent (1916) and The Symbol of Sacrifice (1918) were made for the African Film Productions Ltd of I.W. Schlesinger. They were nation-building historical epics promoting rapprochement between Dutch Afrikaner irredentism and British South A…
The State and the Social
Missing persons and stolen bodies
Some southern African entry points into global history
So-called Global History has taken off in the Unites States to liberate undergraduates from Big Power parochialism, and has been the topic of a major conference held in London in May this year. The key element of Global Studies is to demonstrate the connectedness between different peoples and lands and periods of time. This paper is an attempt to crack the small-end of the egg by starting studies in one familiar region of the world, rather than t…
The pipeline
This paper covers Botswana's emergence as a place of refuge from its troubled white-ruled neighbours. Botswana's reception of refugees is seen as a symptom of, and as a catalyst for, its growing identification as a distinct nation in the region. From 1956, Bechuanaland colonial authorities distanced themselves from apartheid South Africa, and from 1957-58 the country received significant influxes of political refugees. The paper pays particular a…
Unravelling History and Cultural Heritage in Botswana
Cultural heritage is today contested between historical scholarship based in educational institutions and popular and commercial presentations of the past emphasising myths and legends. A revival of interest in heritage in Botswana over the past few generations has been counterbalanced by a decline of interest in the study of history in schools and the university. If one looks back more than a century, however, the study of history and the presen…
Reviving the Treks Debates
(2002). Reviving the Treks Debates. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 308-312
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
In 1895 three African chiefs, dressed in the finest British clothing available, began a tour of the British Isles. That tour foiled Cecil Rhodes' grand plan for Africa and culminated in the Chamberlain Settlement, the document that indirectly led to the independence of present-day Botswana. This is the story of that bizarre journey, one of the most neglected events in British Victorian history, revealed here in detail. The chiefs initially went t…
Not Quite All Quiet on the North West Frontier
(1999). Not Quite All Quiet on the North West Frontier: Khama's Bangwato and the Waterberg Commando. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 44-55
King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen
Seretse Khama 1921-80
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
Khama and Jameson
No abstract available
Imperial History in the Ukay
Seretse Khama, 1921-1980
The impact of Seretse Khama on British public opinion 1948–56 and 1978
Seretse and Ruth hit the headlines after their 1948 marriage, as he was deposed from chieftainship in Africa and exiled in Britain. British colonial power had given way to white racist pressures from South Africa and Rhodesia. The public storm in Britain against both Labour and Tory governments encompassed left, right and liberals in support of Seretse's inheritance and human rights, until the couple were allowed home in 1956. The storm drew publ…
Botswana
A Little God
Journal Article A Little God: The twilight of partriarchy in a Southern African chiefdom Get access A Little God: The twilight of partriarchy in a Southern African chiefdom, by Diana Wylie. Wesleyan University Press, 1990. xiv + 278 pp. £23.00 hardback. ISBN 08195 52283. NEIL PARSONS NEIL PARSONS Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume …
The Kalahari Environment
Journal Article The Kalahari Environment Get access The Kalahari Environment, by David S. G. Thomas and Paul A. Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii+284 pp. NEIL PARSONS NEIL PARSONS Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 368, July 1993, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098650 Published: 0…
Democracy in Botswana
Monarch of All I Survey. Sir Charles Rey
Seretse Khama, 1921-1980
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
In 1895 three African chiefs, dressed in the finest British clothing available, began a tour of the British Isles. That tour foiled Cecil Rhodes' grand plan for Africa and culminated in the Chamberlain Settlement, the document that indirectly led to the independence of present-day Botswana. This is the story of that bizarre journey, one of the most neglected events in British Victorian history, revealed here in detail. The chiefs initially went t…
Unravelling History and Cultural Heritage in Botswana
Cultural heritage is today contested between historical scholarship based in educational institutions and popular and commercial presentations of the past emphasising myths and legends. A revival of interest in heritage in Botswana over the past few generations has been counterbalanced by a decline of interest in the study of history in schools and the university. If one looks back more than a century, however, the study of history and the presen…
The pipeline
This paper covers Botswana's emergence as a place of refuge from its troubled white-ruled neighbours. Botswana's reception of refugees is seen as a symptom of, and as a catalyst for, its growing identification as a distinct nation in the region. From 1956, Bechuanaland colonial authorities distanced themselves from apartheid South Africa, and from 1957-58 the country received significant influxes of political refugees. The paper pays particular a…
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
The impact of Seretse Khama on British public opinion 1948–56 and 1978
Seretse and Ruth hit the headlines after their 1948 marriage, as he was deposed from chieftainship in Africa and exiled in Britain. British colonial power had given way to white racist pressures from South Africa and Rhodesia. The public storm in Britain against both Labour and Tory governments encompassed left, right and liberals in support of Seretse's inheritance and human rights, until the couple were allowed home in 1956. The storm drew publ…
Botswana
Nation-Building Movies Made in South Africa (1916–18)
This paper examines three major feature films made in South Africa in 1916–18, and still surviving in archives. All three films were directed and/or scripted by Harold Marvin Shaw. De Voortrekkers/ Winning a Continent (1916) and The Symbol of Sacrifice (1918) were made for the African Film Productions Ltd of I.W. Schlesinger. They were nation-building historical epics promoting rapprochement between Dutch Afrikaner irredentism and British South A…
Imperial History in the Ukay
The History of My Contemporary
The History of My Contemporary
The Roots of rural poverty in Central and Southern Africa
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
An African Aristocracy
Mind in the Heart of Darkness
A New History of Southern Africa
Publishing in Botswana
Monarch of All I Survey. Sir Charles Rey
Democracy in Botswana
The impact of Seretse Khama on British public opinion 1948–56 and 1978
Seretse and Ruth hit the headlines after their 1948 marriage, as he was deposed from chieftainship in Africa and exiled in Britain. British colonial power had given way to white racist pressures from South Africa and Rhodesia. The public storm in Britain against both Labour and Tory governments encompassed left, right and liberals in support of Seretse's inheritance and human rights, until the couple were allowed home in 1956. The storm drew publ…
Botswana
A Little God
Journal Article A Little God: The twilight of partriarchy in a Southern African chiefdom Get access A Little God: The twilight of partriarchy in a Southern African chiefdom, by Diana Wylie. Wesleyan University Press, 1990. xiv + 278 pp. £23.00 hardback. ISBN 08195 52283. NEIL PARSONS NEIL PARSONS Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume …
The Kalahari Environment
Journal Article The Kalahari Environment Get access The Kalahari Environment, by David S. G. Thomas and Paul A. Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii+284 pp. NEIL PARSONS NEIL PARSONS Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 368, July 1993, Pages 470–471, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098650 Published: 0…
Khama and Jameson
No abstract available
Imperial History in the Ukay
Seretse Khama, 1921-1980
Seretse Khama 1921-80
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
In 1895 three African chiefs, dressed in the finest British clothing available, began a tour of the British Isles. That tour foiled Cecil Rhodes' grand plan for Africa and culminated in the Chamberlain Settlement, the document that indirectly led to the independence of present-day Botswana. This is the story of that bizarre journey, one of the most neglected events in British Victorian history, revealed here in detail. The chiefs initially went t…
Not Quite All Quiet on the North West Frontier
(1999). Not Quite All Quiet on the North West Frontier: Khama's Bangwato and the Waterberg Commando. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 44-55
King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen
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