South Africa

Leslie Anne Hadfield. A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33120-7.

Reviewed by Chau J. Kelly (University of North Florida) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (December, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Robert R. Edgar. Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving (Ohio Short Histories of Africa). Athens: Ohio University Press, 2020. 223 pp. $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2410-0.

Reviewed by Holly Y. McGee (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Africa (August, 2022) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

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

Leslie Anne Hadfield. A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33120-7.

Reviewed by Matt Heaton (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Martin J. Murray. Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 392 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1019-4; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1126-9. 

Melissa Diane Armstrong. An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile. Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 344 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00330-4. 

LaNitra M. Berger. Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. 192 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-18749-8.

Reviewed by Diana Wylie (Boston University) Published on H-Africa (May, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

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Britta Rutert. Contested Properties: Peoples, Plants, and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020. 300 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-4794-5.

Reviewed by Gregory H. Maddox (Texas Southern University) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Francis Musoni. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 218 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04715-1; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-04714-4.

Reviewed by Benjamin Linzy (Marquette University) Published on H-Africa (July, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Robert J. Gordon. The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 522 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9083-9.

Reviewed by Harri Englund (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Africa (October, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)