Böcker av William Beinart

Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa - chiefs, the state or landholders? The contributors to Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa capture some of the intense contestations over land, law and political authority, focussing on threats to the rights of ordinary people.

In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa.

Explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. This volume explores continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid grassroots politics.

While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history.

Beinart and Coates examine the influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems, looking at the history of settler incursion in two frontier nations: the USA and South Africa. They also seek to explain change in indigenous ideas & practices.

This book examines in detail how the people of one formerly independent African chiefdom were absorbed into the wider South African society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book questions some of the assumptions in the literature on 'underdevelopment' in Africa.