Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in ve...

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new w...

The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assemble...

HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assemble...

As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power,...

The essays in this book analyse aspects of Mandela's life in the context of South Africa's nation...

The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

The book questions some of the assumptions in the literature on 'underdevelopment' in Africa.

Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the g...

Endorsed for Edexcel, Searching for rights and freedoms in the 20th century covers Paper 1 and bo...

An innovative examination of the forces--both destructive and dynamic--which have shaped South Af...

In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively ...

Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties help to shape hum...

Offering a selection of significant essays contributed by prominent writers of various perspectiv...

This edited collection illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Afric...

This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and...

Environment and Empire uncovers the fascinating interaction between people and the elements in ve...

An examination of post-apartheid politicsThis volume explores some of the key features of popular...

A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the r...

Beinart and Coates examine the influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems, looking a...

Twentieth-Century South Africa