Beyond Gold and Diamonds Dr Ilka Braumann

Beyond Gold and Diamonds Dr Ilka BraumannThe first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel. Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial born Olive Schreiner, southern Africa's first literary celebrity, as well as by H. Rider

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Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century

The book could also be immensely interesting for the geologists and naturalists

Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork

It will appeal to students and researchers of crime fiction and of film and television studies

2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

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Livestock production has been characterized by the intensification and specialization of production leading to larger farms and

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It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school

religious drama

Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography