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This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's Afri…
In this text scholars from various disciplines discuss citizenship and its relation to gender, ethnicity, class and national status. They focus on the dismantling of welfare states, the attack on civil society, the rise in state terror and the growth of religious and cultural fu…
This book is the first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. Professor Charles Feinstein offers an authoritative survey of five hundred years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements in 1652 through to the post-Apartheid era…
The concepts of 'nationality' and 'national identity' continue to receive a great deal of attention, with sport as one of the most telling areas for its expression. Concentrating on the period since 1945, Sport and National Identity in the Post-War World makes an important contr…
Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited…
Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe - the chocolate islands - through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm…
Explores the ambiguities of the defeat of white rule in southern Africa, including the alliance between global capitalism and indigenous elites that has permitted at best a "false decolonization" of the countries.
