Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The prehistory of Gordonia -- Oorlams, Basters and whites -- The Oorlam and Griqua revolutions, 1780-1840 -- Mid-century social relations -- The Korana wars of 1868-9 and 1879-80 -- Origins of the Vilander state -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Baster settlement of Gordonia and its decline -- The establishment of the Baster settlement -- British annexation of Gordonia -- Gordonia: from Baster settlement to magisterial district -- Loss of land by Basters in Gordonia -- Further developments -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The will of Abraham and Elizabeth September: a struggle for land in Gordonia, 1898-2014 -- Abraham September and the Baster settlement of Gordonia -- The estate of Abraham September, 1898-1909 -- Contesting the ownership of Ouap, 1918-2015 -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From prisoners to exhibits: representations of Bushmen of th enorthern Cape, 1880-1900 -- Representations of the Bushmen -- Magistrate John Scott and punishment of the Bushmen -- Magistrate John Scott, science, and the exhibition of Bushmen -- Scott's successors in the northern Cape and the Bushmen: the 1890s -- Notes -- Chapter 5: South African human remains and the politics of repatriation: reconsidering the legacy of Rudolf Pöch -- Pöch and Mehnarto's activities in South Africa -- Contemporary museums, treatment of human remains and repatriation -- Contesting Rudolf Pöch's legacy -- Reburial of Mr and Mrs Pienaar -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The early history of the brown Afrikaners in Riemvasmaak -- The Afrikaner family leaves the Cape Colony -- The Afrikaners: resisters to colonialism? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The case of the middle Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Pr David BLANCHON) Local impacts of external control -- Global Kashgar - from trading oasis to special economic zone -- High-mountain-oases facing new roads: case studies from the Andes and the Himalayas -- Tourism, development and territorial integration in the Thar Desert, India -- The Kunduz Oasis and Military Globalization.…”
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Table of Contents: “….] -- Metals beyond frontiers : exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa / Shadreck Chirikure, Simon Hall and Tim Maggs -- DeTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape / Alan G. Morris -- Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata : archaeology and legends / Edwin Hanisch -- Revisiting Bokoni : populating the stone ruins of the Mpumulanga Escarpment / P. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Rock art with and without ethnography / Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith -- Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven's things / Sven Ouzman -- Snake an veil: the rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa / David Morris -- Cups and saucers: a preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, Botswana / Nick Walker -- Art and authorship in southern African rock art: examining the Limpopo-Shashe confluence area / Edward B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Determination of Uranium source term in a Polluted Site: a multitechnique study -- Peculiarities of radionuclide distribution within rock destruction zones (by the example of the objects at the Semipalatinsk Test Site) -- Complexation of Uranium by Sulfur and Nitrogen Containing Model Ligands in Aqueous Solution -- Characterizing As, Cu, Fe and U Solubilization by Natural Waters -- Flow in a brine-affected aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site near Moab, Utah, USA -- Problems of the hydrogeological monitoring of objects of the Prydneprovsk Chemical Plant (Dneprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine) -- Characterization of U(VI) behaviour in the Ruprechtov site (CZ) -- Spectroscopic study of the uranium(IV) complexation by organic model ligands in aqueous solution -- Uranium Speciation - from mineral phases to mineral waters -- Coordination of U(IV) and U(VI) sulfate hydrate in aqueous solution -- Uranium partitioning during water treatment processes -- Speciation of Uranium in a Polluted Site: a TRLFS study -- Uranium(VI) Sulfate Complexation as a Function of Temperature and Ionic Strength Studied by TRLFS -- Preliminary study of interaction between tailing and the hydrologic cycle at a uranium mine near Tatanagar, India -- The distribution of uranium in groundwater in the Bushmanland and Namaqualand areas, Northern Cape Province, South Africa -- Uranium minerals of Bukulja mountain controls on storage reservoir water -- Migration of uranium in groundwater in three naturally occurring anomalous areas in South Africa -- Uranium transfer around volcanic-associated uranium deposit -- Selective Retention of U(VI) and U(IV) Chemical Species on Eichrom Resins: DGA, TEVA and UTEVA -- The biogeochemistry of uranium in natural-technogenic provinces of the Issik-Kul -- Radioactivity in soils and horticulture products near uranium mining sites -- Mechanisms and capacity of sun driven uranium removal in natural and nature-like constructed wetlands -- Extracellular defence reactions of rape cells caused by uranium exposure -- Microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of U(VI) interaction with monocellular green algae -- Interactions of Paenibacillus sp. and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius strains with U(VI) -- Comparison of elimination capacity of uranium from the water pathway between periphytic algae, submerse macrophytes and helophytes (emerse vascular plants) -- Microbial transformations of uranium in wastes and implication on its mobility -- Uranium biomineralization by uranium mining waste isolates: a multidisciplinary approach study -- Uranyl reduction by Geobacter sulfurreducens in the presence or absence of iron -- Characterization of the microbial diversity in the abandoned uranium mine Königstein -- Biogeochemical changes induced by uranyl nitrate in a uranium waste pile -- Comparative investigation of the interaction of uranium with lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan -- Environmental implications of Mn(II)-reacted biogenic UO2 -- The effect of temperature on the speciation of U(VI) in sulfate solutions -- Safety functions derived from geochemistry for safety analysis of final disposal of high-level radioactive waste -- Fault-related barriers for uranium transport -- Uranium glasses: the experimental leaching compared to the long-term natural corrosion -- Radiochemical methods analysis of U and Th: metrological and geochemical applications -- Characterization of the interactions between uranium and colloids in soil by on-line fractionation multi-detection methods -- Towards a more safe environment: Disposability of uranium by some clay sediments in Egypt -- The Importance of Organic Colloids for the Transport of Uranium and other Decay Chain Elements in a Boreal Stream Network -- Assessments and decreasing of risks and damages from outbursts of Tien-Shan high mountains lakes -- Uranium-isotopic method using to determine sources of moraine-glacial lakes feeding and assess of its outburst danger -- Impact of uranium mines water treatment on uranium and radium behaviour -- Changes of radium concentration in discharge .…”
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