Alfred Tembo. War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2462-9.
Reviewed by Walima T. Kalusa (University of Eswatini) Published on H-SAfrica (December, 2022) Commissioned by Janeke D. Thumbran
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Alan Kirkaldy. Everyday Communists in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: The Lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 404 pp. n.p. (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-83921-5; $139.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-030-83920-8; $39.99 (paper), ISBN 978-3-030-83922-2.
Reviewed by Tom Lodge (University of Limerick) Published on H-SAfrica (June, 2022) Commissioned by Janeke D. Thumbran
Tony Roshan Samara. Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. x + 238 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-7000-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-7001-7.
Reviewed by Sophie Didier (University of Paris 13-North - Laboratoire Mosaïques-LAVUE (UMR 7218)) Published on H-SAfrica (July, 2014) Commissioned by Elisabeth Peyroux
Veronica Federico. Citoyenneté et participation politique en Afrique du Sud. Paris: l'Harmattan, DL 2012. 1 vol. (385 pp.). ISBN 978-2-296-99208-5.
Reviewed by Chloé Buire (University of the Witwatersrand) Published on H-SAfrica (February, 2014) Commissioned by Elisabeth Peyroux
La nouvelle sphère publique sud-africaine : du cadre constitutionnel aux représentations populaires
Martin J. Murray. City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg. Politics, History, and Culture Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. xxix + 470 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4747-7; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4768-2.
Reviewed by Pauline Guinard (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris) Published on H-SAfrica (October, 2013) Commissioned by Elisabeth Peyroux
Johannesburg's Spatial Politics
Tom Lodge. Sharpeville: A Massacre and Its Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xix + 423 pp. Illustrations, maps. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-280185-2.
Reviewed by Derek Catsam (University of Texas of the Permian Basin) Published on H-SAfrica (September, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Sharpeville in Context
Hermann Giliomee. The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2012. 447 pp. Illustrations. $39.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-624-04971-5; ISBN 978-0-624-05837-3.
Reviewed by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (St. John's College, Cambridge University) Published on H-SAfrica (August, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Peter Limb. The ANC's Early Years: Nation, Class and Place in South Africa before 1940. Hidden Histories Series. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2010. xvi + 586 pp. $48.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-86888-529-9.
Reviewed by Roger Southall (University of Witswatersrand) Published on H-SAfrica (July, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Richard Elphick. The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. vii + 437 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3273-6.
Reviewed by Lindsey Maxwell (Florida International University) Published on H-SAfrica (May, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
A Nation for All Believers: Equality and the Making of South Africa
Paul S. Landau. Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi + 300 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19603-1.
Reviewed by Fred Morton Published on H-SAfrica (January, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Admixture, Amalgamation, and Anomaly: Tilting at Tribes
Scott Couper. Albert Luthuli: Bound by Faith. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010. Illustrations. xi + 291 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-86914-192-9.
Reviewed by Jon Soske (McGill University) Published on H-SAfrica (January, 2013) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Edward Cavanagh. The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994. African Development Series. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. xii + 140 pp. $56.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-0343-0778-9.
Reviewed by Norman Etherington Published on H-SAfrica (December, 2012) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
Vanished Hegemonies and Mutable Ethnicities
S. B. Bekker, Göran Therborn, eds. Power and Powerlessness: Capital Cities in Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2012. 220 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-7969-2350-9; ISBN 978-2-86978-495-6; ISBN 978-0-7969-2351-6; ISBN 978-0-7969-2352-3.
Reviewed by Jean-Luc Piermay (University of Strasbourg) Published on H-SAfrica (December, 2012) Commissioned by Elisabeth Peyroux
Ian Shapiro, Kahreen Tebeau, eds. After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa? Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. vi + 376 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3097-8; ISBN 978-0-8139-3101-2.
Reviewed by Martin J. Murray (Taubman College - University of Michigan) Published on H-SAfrica (November, 2012) Commissioned by Elisabeth Peyroux
Robert Trent Vinson. The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. xv + 235 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-1986-1.
Reviewed by Mary G. Rolinson (Georgia State University) Published on H-SAfrica (November, 2012) Commissioned by Alex Lichtenstein
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