Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

(19b)
B Nasson The South African War 1899–1902 (1999), 1–80, 235–89
Ian R Smith The Origins of the South African War 1899–1902 (1996)
AN Porter ‘South African war (1899–1902) reconsidered’, JAH 31, 1 (1990) 43–57
K Wilson (ed.) The International Impact of the Boer War (2000)
R Oliver & G Sanderson (eds) Cambridge History of Africa Vol 6 (1985), chapters 7–8
J Benyon Proconsul and Paramountcy in South Africa 1806–1910 (1980), 1–5, 260–79, 295–315, 332–
42
H Giliomee The Afrikaners (2003), chapters 7–9
G Blainey ‘Lost Causes of the Jameson Raid’, Economic HR, 2nd series, 18 (1965), 350–66
R Mendlesohn ‘Blainey and Jameson’, Jl Southern African Studies 6 (1980)
J Van Helten ‘Empire & High Finance’, JAH 23 (1982)
S Marks & S Trapido ‘Milner and South Africa’, History Workshop Jl 8 (1979), 50–80
P Harries ‘Capital, state & labour on the Witwatersrand’, South African Hist Jl 18 (1986)
18 (b) How and why was the South African war more than simply a ‘white man’s war’?
G. Cuthbertson, A. Grundlingh and M.L. Suttie (eds.) Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in
the South African War, 1899-1902 (2002) Chapters by Bradford, Mbenga, Lambert and Genge.
D. Denoon, ‘Participation in the “Boer War”: People’s War, People’s Non-War, or Non-People’s War?’ in B.A. Ogot
(ed.) War and Society in Africa: Ten Studies (1972), pp. 109-22
J. Krikler, ‘Agrarian Class Struggle and the South African War’ Social History 14 (1989) pp. 151-176
D. Lowry, The South African War Reappraised (2000)
R.F. Morton, ‘Linchwe I and the Kgatla Campaign in the South African War, 1899-1902’ Journal of African History 26
(1985), pp. 169-91
B. Nasson, ‘Doing down their Masters: Africans, Boers and Treason in the Cape Colony during the South African War,
1899–1902’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 12 (1983), pp. 29-53
B. Nasson, Abraham Esau’s War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902 (1991)
B. Nasson, The South African War 1899-1902 (1999)
W. Nasson, ‘Africans at War’ in J. Gooch (ed.), The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image (London, 2000), 126-
140
S.T. Plaatje, The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje eds. J.L. Comaroff and B. Willan with S. Molema and A. Reed
(1999)
P. Warwick, Black People and the South African War, 1899-1902 (1983)
Special issue of South African Historical Journal: South African War 1899-1902 Centennial Perspectives 41 (1999).
Articles by G. Cuthbertson and A. Jeeves; B. Mbenga, N. Parsons, A.H. Manson and E. van Heyningen.
W Dooling ‘Reconstructing the household: The Northern Cape Colony before and after the South African war’ Journal
of African History 50 (2009), pp. 319-416
E Van Heyningen, ‘The concentration camps of the South African (Anglo-Boer) war’, 1900-1902 History Compass 7
(2009) pp. 22-43
J Hyslop, ‘Martial law and military power in the creation of the South African state’ Journal of Historical Sociology 22
(2009), pp. 234-268
B Nasson ‘Why they fought: Black Cape colonists and Imperial wars, 1899-1918’ International Journal of African
Historical Studies 37 (2004) pp. 55-70 (delete the one of his in JICH, as it is the same as a
chapter in the book)
S Trapido and I Phimister, ‘Imperialism, settler identities and colonial capitalism: The hundred year origins of the 1899
South African War’ Historia 53 (2008), pp. 45-75