The thesis examines the impact of apartheid on the process of proletarianization in South
Africa. In particular, it focuses on land tenure policies, rural development schemes and the …

This scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early
nineteenth century, under the rule of the ambitious and iconic King Shaka. In contrast to …

This examination of the politics of ethnicity and nation-building in Africa stresses the trend
towards subnationalist autonomy and away from a singular, state-centric system based on …

The first comprehensive study of the interaction between the European missionaries and
Africans in precolonial Namibia focusses on the expansion of the colonial frontier. Africans …

Political Identity and Social Change builds upon the constructivist theory of political identity
to explore the social changes that accompanied the end of apartheid in South Africa. To gain …

In Slavery in South Africa, the authors of the ten scholarly essays contend that slavery was
prevalent in an area that encompasses the present African states below the Zambezi river …

Aucune région au monde n'a connu une histoire aussi longue de la traite et de l'esclavage
que l'Afrique orientale et l'océan Indien. Très loin des modèles simplificateurs du complexe …

At first glance, the phrase" panoptic plantations" appears as a puzzling paradox unrelated to
garden or landscape studies. In a realm far removed from the plantation, the concept of the …

In recent years Julian Cobbing has advanced a wide‐ranging critique of the concept of the
Mfecane in southern, central and east African history. The Mfecane, he has maintained, was …

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the
geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes …