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UNFULFILLED POTENTIAL: CONFINED DESTINY OF HISTORICAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE, 1960 -2015 未实现的潜力:1960 -2015年福特哈尔大学历史研究的局限命运

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/sjch45.v2.1

L. Wotshela

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Reimagining Identity: South African Chinese Associations in Post-Apartheid Gauteng. 重新想象身份:种族隔离后的豪登省的南非华人社团。

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2020-07-14 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/sjch45.v1.5

Willem J Pauw

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HIV/AIDS, Women’s migration from Plumtree to Johannesburg, and changing perceptions about disease and the diseased, 1995-2006 1995-2006年，艾滋病毒/艾滋病，妇女从普拉姆特里迁往约翰内斯堡，以及对疾病和患者观念的变化

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2020-07-14 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/sjch45.v1.9

T. Dube

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Contemporary African history in unusual times 不寻常时期的当代非洲历史

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2020-07-14 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/sjch45.v1.1

N. Roos, Tinashe Nyamunda, Suraj Yengde, J. Kufandirori

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A Historiographical Overview of Nkrumah’s Ideology and Foreign Policy 恩克鲁玛思想与外交政策的史学综述

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-12-17 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/sjch44.v2.2

Matteo Grilli

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引用次数: 2

Making history a compulsory school subject – opportunities for memory institutions 使历史成为学校的必修课——记忆机构的机会

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/JCH44.V1.7

Isabel S. Schellnack-Kelly

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Divergent perspectives on the land reform in Zimbabwe 对津巴布韦土地改革的不同看法

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/JCH44.V1.5

Kudzayi Savious Tarisayi

引用次数: 1

Dissidents and dissenters: student responses to apartheid at the University of Fort Hare 持不同政见者与持不同政见者:黑尔堡大学学生对种族隔离的反应

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/JCH44.V1.1

Pamela Johnson

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An evaluation of participation in land reform within Rwanda’s Southern Province 对卢旺达南部省参与土地改革情况的评价

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/JCH44.V1.6

J. D. Dushimimana, J. Zaaiman

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On controversies, battles, raids and an elusive truth: Opposing perspectives on Cassinga, 1978 论争议、战斗、突袭和难以捉摸的真相:卡辛加的对立观点，1978

Journal for Contemporary History Pub Date : 2019-08-19 DOI: 10.18820/24150509/JCH44.V1.3

I. Liebenberg

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