Setting Transvaal Scenes in German Type: Missionary Carl Hoffmann's Book Designs, c.1900-1930.
Carl Adolf Hoffmann is counted among the most prolific 19th- and 20th-century authors employed by the Berlin Missionary Society in the former Transvaal, South Africa, home to the Berlin Mission Church's northern-Sotho/Sepedi-speaking synods. Hoffmann attempted to record African history and cultural...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 447 - 470 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2018
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