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Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire 对帝国边缘体育文化的批判性思考

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2081356

Anell Stacey Daries

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2136741

Darrell P. Rowbottom

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African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe 非洲护士与二十世纪津巴布韦的日常工作

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2070775

Shokahle R. Dlamini

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Experiment at KwaPoyinandi: African Engagement with the Local Health Commission of the Edendale and District Public Health Area, 1942–c.1957 在KwaPoyinandi的实验:非洲人与Edendale地方卫生委员会和地区公共卫生区的接触，1942年至1957年

IF 0.4 3区历史学

South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2131893

M. Epprecht

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Commerce As Politics: The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence 商业即政治:巴索托经济独立的两个世纪斗争

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2085316

John Aerni-Flessner

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What Can We Learn from Mrs. Ples? – The 75th Anniversary of a Fossil 我们能从普莱斯太太身上学到什么?——纪念化石诞生75周年

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2132695

Christa Kuljian

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The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 1976 同情的界限？20世纪30年代至1976年南非的医学伦理与医疗安乐死政治

IF 0.4 3区历史学

South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2136740

J. Parle

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‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s 《畜牧国家不能临时凑合》:1910 - 1940年莫桑比克南部的养牛改良、经济抱负和环境

IF 0.4 3区历史学

South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2064909

Bárbara Direito

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‘The Involvement of the State Had to Be a Secret’: The Impact of Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail Exposés on the Apartheid Government and its Conservative Apologists in the United States “国家的介入必须是一个秘密”:《周末报》和《每周邮报》对美国种族隔离政府及其保守派辩护者的影响

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South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2110611

Bryan Trabold

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The Production of Space at Pieter Roos Park: Public Space as a Lens into Johannesburg’s Changing Public Culture 1968–2019 彼得鲁斯公园的空间生产:公共空间作为透视约翰内斯堡不断变化的公共文化的镜头，1968-2019

IF 0.4 3区历史学

South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2022.2071973

Temba John Dawson Middelmann

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