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Native estates
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ISBN: 3905758911 9783905758917 9783905758900 3905758903 Year: 2017 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland Basler Afrika Bibliographien

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In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive. In the National Archives of Namibia (NAN), for instance, it is difficult to locate pre-independence person-related records of the black majority, while the same type of records of their light-skinned compatriots are easily accessible. This lecture discusses a substantial corpus of about 11 000 so-called "Native Estates" files which previously were not accessible through the existing finding aids. What is the research potential of these formerly neglected and untouched records in particular regarding the social history of contract labour in Namibia and of African migrants on a wider scale? Furthermore, a substantial amount of estate files of migrants from other African countries were discovered -- a feature of Namibian history that has rarely been researched. The sometimes very detailed files reveal information on the migrants' origin, their integration in Namibian society and expatriate networks in the country. They also reveal that not only Angolans and West Africans but also a substantial number of migrants from other Southern African colonies found employment opportunities in Namibia during the colonial era. The "Native Estate" records thus have an important research potential with regard to the entire Southern African region, which was heavily reliant on migrant labour both on the demand and on the supply side.

Building an electronic records archive at the National Archives and Records Administration
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ISBN: 0309089476 9786610179657 1280179651 030951729X 9780309517294 9780309089470 0309167965 Year: 2003 Publisher: Washington, DC National Academies Press


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Little Research Value
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ISBN: 3905758938 9783905758931 9783905758788 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Basler Afrika Bibliographien

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Ellen Ndeshi Namhila is intrigued by the question: Why can the National Archives of Namibia respond to genealogical enquiries of Whites in a matter of minutes with finding estate records of deceased persons, while similar requests from Blacks cannot be served? Not satisfied with the sweeping statement that this is the result of colonialism and apartheid, she follows the track of so-called "Native estates" through legislation, record creation and disposal, records management and administrative neglect, authorised and unauthorised destruction, transfer and appraisal, selective processing, and (almost) final amnesia. Eventually she discovers over 11,000 forgotten surviving African estate records -- but also evidence for the destruction of many others. And she demonstrates the potential of these records to interpret the lives of those who otherwise appear in history only as statistics -- records which were condemned to destruction by colonial archivists stating they had "little research value and no functional value". This study of memory against forgetting is a call to post-colonial archives to re-visit their holdings and the systemic colonial bias that continues to haunt them. This is the revised version of Ellen Namhila's 2015 doctoral thesis published at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Terra nostra
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ISBN: 1283529165 9786613841612 0773586172 9780773586178 0660194961 9780660194967 2894484534 9782894484531 9781283529167 6613841617 Year: 2006 Publisher: Georgetown, Ont. McGill-Queen's University Press

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"Terra Nostra is a celebration of the mapping of Canada-for Library and Archives Canada, it is also a celebration and a sharing of the extraordinary historical resource that is contained in its cartographic holdings. The collection spans an incredible array of mapping initiatives, from the portolan charts of the early explorers, to recent aerial images of east coast ice floes." "Canada's maps have been many things to many people: for early merchant-adventurers, they promised fame and fortune; for army commanders, they strengthened their hold on the land; for politicians, they legitimized their dominion over the country; for businessmen, they proclaimed their sense of community pride; and for ordinary citizens, they were testaments to the type of communities they wanted for their children. As repositories of intellectual thought, Canada's maps provide evidence of our nation's technical accomplishments and offer insight into the growth of our geographical knowledge. They are windows on our view of the world. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Calendar of the fine rolls of Henry III
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ISBN: 9781843833376 9781843833581 9781843834885 9781846156168 Year: 2007 Publisher: Woodbridge ; Rochester London The Boydell Press The national Archives

The diplomatica collection in the Swedish National Archives
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ISBN: 913805146X Year: 1980 Publisher: Stockholm Liber Förlaget

Maps for family and local history
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ISBN: 1281970166 1282809911 9786612809910 9786611970161 1770701702 1554882230 9781554882236 9781903365502 1903365503 1903365503 9781550025064 1550025066 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] Durdurn

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Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas. Covering 1836 to 1943, the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys provide a wealth of information on rural and urban localities, on dwellings, settlements, and landscapes as well as the status of householders. The text gives the rationale behind the surveys and covers each in detail. Fully updated by map experts from The National Archives, this illustrated guide is the perfect companion to researchi


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Echoes from Russia's Colonial Past
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ISBN: 9783110984231 Year: 2023 Publisher: München Wien

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Covering a large portion of the period from the early seventeenth century to the contemporary era, the Kalmyk National Archive has particularly rich holdings from the pre-revolutionary period, which makes it an outstanding source for historical studies on Russia’s ‘internal colonialism’ at the Empire’s southern frontiers. Unfortunately, most of this documentation was lost after the revolution and the civil war. Another part of the archive disappeared during WW II or was deliberately destroyed during the subsequent deportation of the Kalmyk people in 1942. Prior to this, the archival funds still numbered about 70,000 complete files. We know this because information about the pre-revolutionary holdings is well-documented in the inventories contained in the archival primary record books and their inspection lists which were created mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s and still contained the titles of all documents with a special mark next to those that had been lost over time. These old inventories were revised in the late 1990s and became the subject of an updated edition. Unfortunately, in this case, too, all the lost documents were deleted from the new archival inventories. These previous records, which, given the loss of the documents themselves, provided the only historical record of much of Kalmyk and Russian imperial history, have now disappeared. However, in the mid-1990s I could take copies of the primary inventories, which already then were in a deplorable state. During my archival research in recent years, I began to work with these old archival books in order to describe, inventory and analyse this particular ‘colonial archive’. The results of this work are presented in this publication. Thus, we have a description of the metadata, including the titles of those documents that were either subjected to the horrendous waste campaign of the Soviet era, or were destroyed to erase inconvenient historical truth. In addition to such echoes from the distant and now inaccessible past, this publication presents an up-to-date inventory of pre-revolutionary documents stored to this day in the Kalmyk National Archive.

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HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Russian and Kalmyk history. --- colonial history. --- historical and political anthropology. --- imperial turn. --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv Respubliki Kalmykii︠a︡ --- Bi︠u︡dzhetnoe uchrezhdenie Respubliki Kalmykii︠a︡ "Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv" --- BU RK "Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv" --- Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia). --- NARK --- National Archives of the Kalmyk Republic --- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Kalmyt︠s︡koĭ ASSR --- Национальный архив Республики Калмыкия --- Калмыкия (Russia). --- НАРК --- History. --- Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia) --- Russia (Federation) --- Eluosi (Federation) --- Federation of Russia --- Federazione della Russia --- Federazione russa --- O-lo-ssu (Federation) --- OKhU --- Orosyn Kholboony Uls --- Pravitelʹstvo RF --- Pravitelʹstvo Rossii --- Pravitelʹstvo Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii --- RF --- Roshia Renpō --- Rosiĭsʹka Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Rosja (Federation) --- Rossii︠a︡ (Federation) --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Rossiya (Federation) --- Rossiyskaya Federatsiya --- Russian Federation --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russische Föderation --- Urysye Federat︠s︡ie --- Калмыкия (Russia) --- Kalmykia (Russia) --- Kalmykiya (Russia) --- Republic of Kalmykia (Russia) --- Республика Калмыкия (Russia) --- Respublika Kalmykii︠a︡ (Russia) --- Хальмг Тангч (Russia) --- Khalʹmg Tangch (Russia) --- Republik Kalmückien (Russia) --- Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast (Russia) --- Republic of Xhalmg Tangsh (Russia) --- Chalmg Tangtsch (Russia) --- Kalmykien (Russia) --- Kalmückien --- Khalʹmg Tan︠g︡ḣch (Russia) --- Kalmyt︠s︡kai︠a︡ A.S.S.R. (R.S.F.S.R.) --- History


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De keuze van de archivaris : uitzonderlijke ancien régimestukken uit de Belgische Rijksarchieven
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ISBN: 9789054877967 9054877960 9789057462771 905746277X Year: 2010 Publisher: Bruxelles: ASP,

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Which is in your opinion the most extraordinary archival item of your archives service and why?" The archivists of the Belgian State Archives were asked this question. There was only one constraint, as the items had to originate from the Ancien Regime: the period from the end of the Middle Ages until the French Revolution. 'Extraordinary' applied either to content or form. Thus, the archivists were given the opportunity to show off the real gems of their archives service. This book allows you to marvel at these outstanding items from the Belgian State Archives repositories

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Archivistics --- anno 1500-1799 --- Belgium --- Archiefkunde. --- België. --- Archives --- 930.25 <493> --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--België --- 930.25 <493> Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--België --- anno 1500-1799. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian --- Manuscripts --- Seals (Numismatics) --- Sigillography --- Signets --- Sphragistics --- Diplomatics --- Glyptics --- Heraldry --- History --- Inscriptions --- Intaglios --- Numismatics --- Emblems, National --- Signatures (Writing) --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Belgian illumination of books and manuscripts --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Documentation --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Public records --- Exhibitions --- Depositories --- Repositories --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium) --- Belgium. --- Algemeen Rijksarchief te Brussel --- A.G.R. (Archives générales du Royaume) --- AGR --- National Archives of Belgium --- Algemeen Rijksarchief (Belgium) --- Belgische Rijksarchieven --- Archives de l'État en Belgique --- Belgian State Archives --- Belgique --- België --- Bélgica --- Royaume de Belgique --- Belgii︠a︡ --- Kingdom of Belgium --- Koninkrijk van België --- Königreich Belgien --- Bèlgia --- Koninkryk van België --- Königriich Belgie --- Koninkrijk België --- Belgice --- Belgice Cynerīce --- بلجيكا --- Baljīkā --- مملكة بلجيكا --- Mamlakat Baljīkā --- Belchica --- Reino de Belchica --- Belghia --- Vãsilia di Belghia --- Royômo de Bèlg·ique --- Bélxica --- Reinu de Bélxica --- Bilkiya --- Bilgasuyu --- Bilhika Qhapaqsuyu --- Belçika --- Belçika Krallığı --- Бельгия --- Бельгия Короллеге --- Belʹgii︠a︡ Korollege --- Бельгія --- Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Каралеўства Бельгія --- Karaleŭstva Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Belhika --- Bäigien --- Kinigraich Bäigien --- Belgija --- Kraljevina Belgija --- Белгия --- Regne de Bèlgica --- Бельги --- Belʹgi --- Belgické království --- Gwlad Belg --- Teyrnas Gwlad Belg --- Belgien --- Kongeriget Belgien --- Bélgii Bikéyah --- Belgiska --- Kralojstwo Belgiskej --- Belgia Kuningriik --- Βέλγιο --- Velgio --- Βασίλειο του Βελγίου --- Vasileio tou Velgiou --- Reino de Bélgica --- Belgio --- Reĝlando Belgio --- Belgujo --- Belgika --- Belgje --- Belgjo --- Belgjiche --- Bheilg --- Ríocht na Beilge --- Velg --- Reeriaght ny Belg --- Belgiya --- Rìoghachd na Beilge --- Pí-li-sṳ̀ --- Belʹjmudin Nutg --- Pelekiuma --- Regno del Belgio --- בלגיה --- Belgiyah --- ממלכת בלגיה --- Mamlekhet Belgiyah --- Belgijskô --- Pow Belg --- Ruwvaneth Belgek --- Ububiligi --- Ububirigi --- Igihugu cyʼUbubirigi --- Ubelgiji --- Ufalme wa Ubelgiji --- Belezi --- Nsi ya ntotila ya Belezi --- Bèljik --- Beljika --- Beļgeja --- Beļg̓ijas Karaliste --- Belsch --- Kinnekräich Belsch --- Belgijos Karalystė --- Belsj --- Keuninkriek Belsj --- Beldjym --- Belga Királyság --- Белгија --- ベルギー --- Berugī --- Archives. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Belgian. --- Manuscripts. --- Seals (Numismatics). --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium) --- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium). --- To 1555. --- Archives - Belgium

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