JOURNAL REVIEW

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890–1930 by W. Beinart and C. Bundy. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry, 2nd edition, by C. Bundy. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa edited by Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family by Marq de Villiers. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.

Home Truths by Basil Du Toit and Spoils of War by John Eppel. Cape Town: Carrefour Press, 1988 and 1989.

Because They Chose the Plan of God: The story of the Bulhoek Massacre by Robert Edgar. History Workshop Topic Series I. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Brewers, Beerhalls and Boycotts: A History of Liquor in South Africa by Paul la Hausse. History Workshop Topic Series 2. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Detention and Torture in South Africa: Psychological, Legal and Historical Studies by Don Foster, with contributions by Dennis Davis and research assistance by Diane Sandier. Cape Town: David Philip, 1987.

State Resistance and Change in South Africa edited by Philip Frankel, Noam Pines and Mark Swilling. Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, 1988.

Building Tomorrow Today; African Workers in Trade Unions 1970–1984 by Steven Friedman. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

Facing The Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa by Tim Keegan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

History of Southern Africa by J.D. Omer‐Cooper. London: James Currey, 1987.

Journey Continued: An Autobiography by Alan Paton. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement of 1856–7 by J.B. Peires. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989.

The Blood of Our Silence by Kelwyn Sole. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.     

Anxious urbanity: xenophobia,the native subject and the refugee camp

G. Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall; A history of South African ‘Coloured’ politics, (Cape Town, David Philip, 1987)

Ian Goldin, Making Race: The politics and economics of Coloured identity in South Africa (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1987).

Gavin Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall: A History of South African ‘Coloured’ Politics (Cape Town: David Philip, 1987).

Women in African Literature Today, No. 15, James Curry Limited, London: 1987.

Left‐Radical Movements in South Africa and Namibia 1900–1981 A Bibliographical and Historical Study, compiled by Elizabeth W. Böhmer. 2 vols. Cape Town: South African Library, 1986 and 1987.

South African Review 4. Edited and compiled by Glenn Moss and Ingrid Obery for the Southern African Research Service (SARS). Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987, 599 pp., R24,95

The Rise and Decline of Apartheid: A study of political movements among the coloured people of South Africa, 1880–1985, R.E. van der Ross, (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1986)

Setiloane, Gabriel M. African Theology ‐An Introduction. Johannnesburg. Skotaville 1986.

Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat, by Doug Hindson, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1987.

Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives, edited by Belinda Bozzoli (Ravan, Johannesburg, 1987).     

Dan O'Meara's Afrikaner nationalism

Volkskapitalisme: Class, Capital and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934–1948 by Dan O'Meara, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1983 xvi+ 281 pp, bibliography.     

Towards a people's history

Gold and Workers 1886–1924: A People's History of South Africa Vol. 1 by Luli Callinicos. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981. Drawings by Andy Mason, bibliography, index, references. 112 pp. R3.75.     

Letter to the editor

Inside by Jeremy Cronin. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 103 pp. R6,50.     

Quislings or Realists?

Quislings or Realists? A documentary study of ‘Coloured’ politics in South Africa. Edited by Pierre Hugo. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1978. 744 pp. R24.     

Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition by Jeff Opland. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985. Pp. xii & 303. Bibliography,Index. (Price: pb R9.95).

Voices Made Night by Mia Couto. London: Heinemann, 1990.

Bones by Chenjerai Hove. London: Heinemann, 1990.

The Theory of African Literature by Chidi Amuta. London: Zed, 1989.

Spring is Rebellious. Edited by I. de Kok and K. Press. Cape Town: Buchu Books.

The Shaping of South African Society 1652–1840 edited by R. Elphick and H. Giliomee. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989.

Creating Order: The Image of the Homestead in Mpondo Social Life by Heinz Kuckertz, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1989.

The Angry Divide: Social and Economic History of the Western Cape edited by Wilmot James and Mary Simons. Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1989.

Modernizing Super‐Exploitation. Restructuring South African Agriculture by Tessa Marcus. London: Zed Books, 1989.

Chains of Thought by Wally Morrow. Johannesburg: Southern Books: 1989.

SA Review 5 edited by Glen Moss and Ingrid Obery. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989.

A People's Voice: Black South African Writing in the Twentieth Century by Piniel Viriri Shava. London: Zed Press, 1989.

SOUTH AFRICA: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions by Newell M. Stultz. Ann Arbor: The Pierian Press, 1989.

Asking for trouble: the autobiography of a banned journalist (London: Penguin, 1987) and Biko (London: Penguin, 1987) by Donald Woods.     

The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)

Testing the Chains, Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1982. 389pp. £27.90.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Series II. The Black Military Experience ed. Ira Berlin, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. xxx+ 852 pp. £37.50.

Slavery and Freedom (expanded edition, ed. by William W. Freehling). Willie Lee Rose. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982. xi, 254pp. £6.95.

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. Catherine Clinton. New York: Pantheon. 1982. xix + 331pp. $19.95.

Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. Lawrence J. Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. xi + 344 pp. £20.00.

Immigrants, Minorities and Race Relations: A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Presented at British and Irish Universities, 1900–1981. Victor F. Gilbert and Darshan Singh Tatla. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1984. xxxiii, 153 pp. £13.50.     

Cast in a racial mould

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa 1900 ‐1983 by Belinda Bozzoli, with the assistance of Mmantho Nkotsoe, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1991.

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990 by Wilmot G. James, David Philip, James Currey &; Indiana University Press, Cape Town, London &; Bloomington,1992.

Bounds of Possibility ‐ The Legacy of Steve Biko &; Black Consciousness by N.B. Pityana, M. Ramphele, M. Mpumlwana, &; L. Wilson, (eds), Cape Town, David Philip, 1991.

Faces in the revolution: the psychological effects of violence on township youth in South Africa by Gill Straker, with Fathima Moosa, Rise Becker and Madiyoyo Nkwale. Cape Town, David Philip, 1992 and Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1992.

Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa by Diana E.H.Russell. New York, Basic Books, 1989.

Towards Justice? Crime and State Control in South Africa by Desiree Hansson and Dirk van Zyl Smit (eds), Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990.

South Africa in the Nineties by DJ van Vuuren, NE Wiehahn, NJ Rhoodie en M Wiechers (eds), HSRC Publishers, 1991.

To Live in Fear: Witchburning and Medicine Murder in Venda by A de V. Minnar, D Offringa and C Payze, HSRC, Pretoria, 1992.

The Anti‐Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power by James Ferguson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices by Norma J. Kriger. Cambridge University Press, African Studies Series, number 70,1992.

A Passage to England ‐ Barbadian Londoners speak of home by John Western. U.C.L. Press, London, 1992.

Breaking the formal frame: Readings in South African education in the eighties by Clive Millar, Sarah‐Anne Raynham and Angela Schaffer (eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Negotiation : Theories, Strategies and Skills by Wynand Pienaar and Manie Spoelstra, Kenwyn, Juta, 1991

SUM: Selected Works by Martin Versveld. Cape Town: Carrefour Press 1991.

Projections in the Past Tense, by Kelwyn Sole. Ravan Press, 1992.     

Warriors without spears: Africans in the South African War, 1899–1902

Black People in the South African War 1899–1902, by Peter Warwick. Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1983. Pp. xiv & 224: maps, tables.     

Xhosa history

The House of Phalo by J.B. Peires, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981, 281 pp.     

Notes of a serf woman by M. E. Vasilieva

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Series 1, Volume II, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South. Edited by IRA BERLIN. STEVEN F. MILLER, JOSEPH P. REIDY and LESLIE S. ROWLAND. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993. xxxvii, 776pp. £60.00 and $79.95. ISBN 0–521–41742–2.

Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti‐Slavery Society. DEBRA GOLD HANSEN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1993. ix, 231pp. £28.50. ISBN 0–87023–848–5

John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. JOHN NIVEN. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1988. xvi, 367 pp. $12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8071–1858–3.

Thackeray and Slavery. DEBORAH A. THOMAS. Athens: Ohio University Press. 1993. xvii, 245pp. £44. ISBN 0–8214–1038–5.

Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia. Edited by MARTIN A. KLEIN. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv, 220 pp. $40 and $14.95. ISBN 0–299–13750–3 and 0–299–13754–6.

Islanders in the Stream. A History of the Bahamian People. Volume One. From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. MICHEAL CRATON AND GAIL SAUNDERS. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press. 1992. xxiii, 455 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8203–1382–3.

Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage, NELLY SCHMINDT. Paris: Fayard, 1994. 440 pp. 150FF. ISBN 2–213–03058–8.     

Encyclopaedic Desire: A Response to Gates

“We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told”: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom by Isabel Hofmeyr. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; London: James Currey, 1994.

Liquor and Labour in Southern Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler. Athens: Ohio University Press; and Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1992.

Politics and performance: Theatre, Poetry, and Song on Southern Africa, edited by Liz Gunner, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.

In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post‐Development by Serge Latouche; translated and introduced by Martin O'Connor &; Rosemary Arnoux; London: Zed, 1993.     

Richard Elphick: Khoi and San Relationships in the Western Cape

Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa by Richard Elphick. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985. Pp. xxii & 266, maps (price: paperback R14.95).     

Grouping theories: a response to the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) panel on “Confusion as a Form”

White power and the liberal Conscience: Racial Segregation and South African Liberalism 1921–60 by Paul Rich. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1984. Pp. viii &; 192. R12,50     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

Book reviews

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Rhys Isaac>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1982. xxxii, 451pp. $29.50 & $9.95.

After Africa. Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. Introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed, assisted by Leslie Barker and Adrian Stackhouse. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1983. ix, 444 pp. £10.95 (Pp); £40.00 (Cl).

Another Dimension‐to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism. Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1981. xix, 295pp. $29.95.

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Joel Williamson. New York: The Free Press. 1980. xvi + 221pp. Notes and index. $16.95.     

Pertinent Pamphlets

Abstract

History of Our Own Times: These Eventful Years, the Twentieth Century in the Making. Two vols., 692 and 695 pp. Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., London and New York, 1924. $11.50. Edited by Franklin H. Hooper.

History of Our Own Times: History of Modern Europe, 1878–1919. By G. P. Gooch. Henry Holt &; Co., New York, 1923. 728 pp. $5.00.

History of Our Own Times: Europe Since 1815. By Charles Downer Hazen. Henry Holt &; Co., New York, 1923. Two vols., 1202 pp. $8.00.

History of Our Own Times: Europe Since 1918. By Herbert Adams Gibbons. The Century Co., New York, 1923. 622 pp. $3.00.

History of Our Own Times: The Growth of the United States. By Ralph Volney Harlow. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1925. xv, 862 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by: W. Randall Waterman.

History of Our Own Times: The History of the Foreign Policy of the United States. By Randolph Greenfield Adams. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924. xv, 490 pp. Reviewed by: Lindsay Rogers

The English-Speaking Nations. By G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood. The Oxford University Press, American Branch, New York, 1924. xx, 396 pp. $1.20. Reviewed by: Howard Robinson

An Introduction to Church History. By Rev. Peter Gullday, Ph.D., Professor of Church History, Catholic University of America. B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis, 1925. vii, 350 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by: Thomas Peardon

The Turco-Egyptian Question in the Relations of England, France and Russia, 1832–1841. By F. S. Rodkey. Urbans, The University of Illinois, 1924. 274 pp. Reviewed by: Edward Mead Earle

Historical Terms and Facts. By Francis S. Betten. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1924. 165 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by: Malcolm E. MacGillivray

The first volume of Elie Hal$eAvy's well-known Histoire du peuple anglias au XIXe siecle has been translated into English by E. I. Watkin and D. A. Barber and appears under the title, A History of the English People in 1815 (New York, Harcourt, Brace &; Company, 1924. xvi, 576 pp. $6.00).     

Review essay: Slavery in Africa

The Ideology of Slavery in Africa. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1981. 311pp.

Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge University Press, 1983. xvi + 347pp. Bibl., Index.     

Prisons,workhouses, and the control of slave labour in low country Georgia, 1763–1815

Engendering History. Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by VERENE SHEPHERD, BRIDGET BRERETON, BARBARA BAILEY. London: James Currey, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1995. xxii, 406pp. £35.00 and £12.50.

Haiti, History and the Gods. JOAN DAYAN. Los Angeles; University of California Press. 1995. xxiii, 339pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–08900–6.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by MARY TURNER. Kingston, Bloomington and Indianapolis, and London: Ian Randle Publishers, Indiana University Press, and James Currey. 1995. x, 309pp. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–253–32972–8; 0–253–21001–1.

The Black Loyalist Directory. African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by GRAHAM RUSSELL HODGES. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. li. 318pp. $37.00. ISBN 0–8153–2172–4.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861. STANLEY HARROLD. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press ofKentucky, 1995. x, 245 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–1906–5.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823–1857. Edited by JOHN NIVEN. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. xxv, 489 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87338–508‐X.

The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. JAMES G. HOLLANDSWORTH, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1995. xiv, 140pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–8071–1939–3.

The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 (orig. pub. 1985). xvi, 318pp. £13.95. ISBN 0–80712028–6.

Caste &; Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920. FON LOUISE GORDON. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xvi, 179pp. £31.50. ISBN 0–8203–1711‐X.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. AMELIA WALLACE VERNON. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1995. xiii, 309pp. $16.95.

Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. CARLOS AGU1RRE. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cató1ica del Perú, Fondo Editorial. 1993. 335pp. ISBN 84–89309–63–9.

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854. CHRISTINE HÜNEFELDT. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. xi, 269pp. ISBN 0–520–08235–4 (cloth); 0–520–08292–3 (paper).

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel. 1600–1850. JAMES L.A. WEBB, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi, 227pp. £40.95 (cloth); £17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–299–14330–9.

From Slave Trade to ‘legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth‐Century West Africa. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, African Studies Series 86. xi, 278pp. £35.00.

Slavery and Slaving in World History. A Bibliography. 1900–1991. JOSEPH C. MILLER. Millwood, NY. 1993. xvii, 556pp. $90.00. ISBN 0–527–63660–6.