- Title
- A study in local history: Grahamstown, 1883-1904
- Creator
- Sellick, Rose-Mary
- Subject
- Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History
- Date Issued
- 1983
- Date
- 1983
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2556
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002409
- Identifier
- Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History
- Description
- [From the Preface]: A Study in Local History: Grahamstown 1883-1904 aims to draw into a coherent picture the threads of political attitudes, approaches to racial issues and changes confronting the late Victorians in Grahamstown, particularly in the areas of sanitation, public health and shifting commercial frontiers. The relation of local development to national affairs has been investigated, although attempts to define exactly how the former influenced the latter, and vice versa, would involve one in the proverbial chicken-and-egg syndrome. Let it suffice to say that an understanding of events in the microcosm, or locality, lends clarity to the cross-current of affairs at the national level. It begins at the point where Grahamstown's commercial importance in the Eastern Cape declines after a flourish of hopes in the prospects of the Port Alfred harbour as a means of bringing trade back to Grahamstown. The study concludes when the foundation of Rhodes University College in 1904, provides a new centre of development for the city.
- Format
- 353 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, History
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Sellick, Rose-Mary
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