The author explores how the conceptualisation of black Africans as savage, sub human and as the external Other, influenced the conceptual framing of the UK's underclass of women, the poor and the Irish within a growing capitalist ideology. This study shows how South Africa in particular provided a terrain for racial, class and gender struggles in England. Index, refs, 222pp, USA. CHICAGO U P, 0226501779

Now in paperback. The story of an eighteenth century shipwreck and what befell the ship's castaways on the Wild Coast of South Africa, hundreds miles from any European settlement. Using new research, the author describes the people that first found them the Bomvava and unravels the mystery of those who fled, and those who stayed in South Africa. Illustrated with colour plates. Index, notes, sources, 297pp, UK. FABER AND FABER.

A social history of medicine in the Cape, which places formal Western medicine within its political, social and economic context. The work shows the way in which the Cape medical profession excluded all but a few omen and black practitioners, and discriminated along lines of race, class and gender in their practice. It revises traditional whiggish and linear accounts of professional advancement, but it also moves beyond the classic revisionist tradition, which documents the emergence of a society divided along lines of race and gender, by providing examples of cultural crossover and medical pluralism. Index, bib, 318pp, BNS, NETHERLANDS. RODOPI.

Vendaland was the last part of South Africa to be converted to Christianity by white missionar-ies. In the 1860s, a number of Tshivenda-speaking Christians were living there. They had been converted to Christianity while working as migrant labourers in the Cape Colony or Natal. On returning home, they tried to keep their new faith alive, sometimes by blending elements of Christianity with traditional religions. When the Berlin Missionaries arrived they refused to accept this independent local initiative. In addition to attempting to convert heathens, they set out to bring these previously-converted Christians under their control. This work examines the experiences of local Christians as well as missionary recorders; their training in Germany and the ways in which they attempted to make sense of the landscape and its inhabitants textually and iconographically. Index, bib, b/w plates, 318pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

A look at South African history before the mineral age, in particular the years of British rule up to the 1850s. Whereas earlier historians saw the apartheid state emerging from forces unleashed by the mineral revolution, Keegan argues that its roots lie in the period of integration into the free trade colonial empire. 'The scholarship is meticulous, the judgements judicious and sharp...quite simply a tour de force.' Shula Marks, Professor the History of Southern Africa, London University. LEICESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The story of Nongqawuse, the young girl whose fantastic promise of the resurrection of the dead lured almost an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle Killing, initiated by her, is one of the most misunderstood of central events in Xhosa and South African history. 348pp, 23 illus. . JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

In 1799 four missionaries, two English and two Dutch, arrived at the Cape, having been sent out by the London Missionary Society. Although mission work by the Moravians had begun some time before, this meant the commencement of large scale mission work in South Africa. This book consists of 17 essays, several in Afrikaans, describing the life and work of a number of missionaries, mission assistants and artisans, native agents, catechists and lay helpers. The subjects are mainly Dutch and indigenous mission workers in the service of the LMS and their work among the slave population of the Cape Colony and the inhabitants of the Orange River area beyond the northern frontier of the Colony. Index, bib, chronolgy, 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

A survey of white contact in the Free State from the end of the eighteenth century to 1846 and the written accounts left by the first white settlers. Includes the texts of eleven of these settlers, translated from Dutch, German and French. Index, maps, sources, notes, 181pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE, 1869190165

Descriptions of slaves and incidents affecting their lives in the Cape, during the period from the second British occupation of the Cape in 1806 to the proclamation of freedom in 1834. Index, bib, endnotes, b/w photographs & illus, vii, 168pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Now in paperback. Looks at the myth of the liberal regime in colonial British Cape Colony and reveals that the British were every bit a racist as their Boer neighbours. Index, illus, statistics, maps, 279pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521526396

In South African history, the Eastern Cape frontier has been traditionally regarded as the pre-eminent zone of contact between colonists and indigenes. But there was an earlier frontier in the history of the country where the conflict between Dutch colonists and indigenous herders and hunters, the Khoi and San (Hottentots and Bushmen), was in many ways more decisive in its outcome, more brutal and violent in its manner, and just as significant in its effects on later South African history. 352pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

Examines how the forces of race and class were expressed in gendered ways in colonial Natal, and focuses on how white men established their dominance and constructed their masculinity. 26 b/w ill, notes, bib, index, 322pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS, 1868881512

Gandhi dated his nonviolence to the occasion when he was thrown off a train in Pietermaritzburg because of his colour. This collection of essays looks at his South African experience. Index, notes, 131pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS. 0869809172

1996 Paperback

In 1826 a group of emigrants from Griquatown under Adam Kok II was allowed to settle at the mission station of Philippolis in the Transgariep. Basing his account on contemporary sources, the author describes the rise, development and collapse of the Philippolis Captaincy, and gives a detailed account of its organisation and administration. Index, notes, b/w illus, 308pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE, 1919825398

The only surviving mission outpost of the London Missionary Society established for the San peoples in the vicinity of the Orange River, Philippolis became the capital of a Griqua Captaincy after Adam Kok II and his followers settled there in 1826. This book covers the first fifteen years of mission work there, the establishment of Christianity among the scattered inhabitants of the area and the tentative development of the new Griqua polity, through extracts from the letters and journals of missionaries serving there. Index, chronology, 142pp, SOUTH AFRICA . PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

Argues that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine-teenth centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa. Relying mainly on materials held in archives and libraries in Britain and South Africa, Storey explains the workings of the gun trade and the technological development of the firearms. He relates the history of firearms to ecological, political, and social changes, showing that there is a close relationship between technology and politics in South Africa. Index, bib, 378pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

New in paperback. In 1994, in one of the first acts of cultural reparation when the African National Congress came to power, Nelson Mandela requested that France release Sara Baartman's remains. Such is the resonance of the 'Hottentot Venus' story, such is the significance of her place in history, that when the remains were eventually returned in April 2002, the funeral service was a national event. Two hundred years earlier, the young Saartjie Baartman had been persuaded by a Dutch man and an English doctor in Cape Town to go with them to England to seek fame and fortune for all three. The fame and the fortune was to come from Saartjie's body - 'Hottentot' women were figures of exotic excess and the three hatched a plan for Saartjie to perform in shows which would be extravaganzas of titillation and exoticism. Index, notes, col illus, 239pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY.

Tells the story, with many historical photographs previously unpublished, of the Jewish pioneers who, like the kokerboom tree, dug their roots into the sandy soil of Namaqualand. They transformed their situation from penniless immigrants to established citizens and in the process left deep tracks in this remote and isolated region of South Africa. A history spanning 120 years, from the mid-1850s to the late 1970s. 206 photographs, map, 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FERNWOOD PRESS.

This multi-volume series is an indispensable research tool for scholars working on the history and ethnography of the Zulu kingdom and neighbouring states. James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890s and early years of the 20th century. In meticulously recorded interviews with hundreds of informants, the great majority of them Africans, he assembled a vast and unique collection of notes on the traditions and customs of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples. Volume 5 contains statements from another 40 of the informants whom Stuart interviewed. Among the most important of these are: Ngidi kaMcikaziswa, who gave Stuart a great deal of information on the Zulu King Shaka from the perspective of the Langeni, the people of Shaka's mother; Qalizwe, who provided Stuart with a number of brief but fascinat-ing statements on prostitution and homosexuality among Africans in the towns of Natal; and Pixley Seme, a founder of the South African Native National Congress (later the ANC) in 1912, who was interviewed by Stuart in London in 1925 on historical and social issues. (Vol5 360pp, 255x170mm) SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Examines how the ideas held by slaves, missionaries, abolitionists, and colonial officials about the capacities and roles of men and women crucially influenced slaves' experiences of freedom. Contributes to the literature on comparative slave systems and processes of emancipation. Map, notes, bib, index, 238pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

A study examining 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. Index, bib, notes, tables, maps, xi, 220pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899. Argues that for slaves and slave-owners alike, incorporation into the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century brought fruits that were bitter-sweet. The gentry had initially done well by accepting British rule but were ultimately faced with the legislated ending of servile labour. To slaves and Khoisan servants, British rule brought freedom, but a freedom that remained limited. The alliances that ensured nineteenth-century colonial stability all but fell apart as the descendants of slaves and Khoisan turned on their erstwhile masters during the South African War of 1899-1902. Index, bib, 249pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

An authoritative study of slavery in the Cape region of South Africa and resistance of the slaves to daily pressures to become dehumanised. The author looks at the ways in which South African slaves preserved culture, family ties and their human dignity. Index, notes, xiii, 334pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS, 0813921791

Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth century, when revolts erupted across a wide area of rural South Africa. All these uprisings were rooted in grievances over taxes. Rebels frequently invoked supernatural powers for assistance and accused government officials of using witchcraft to enrich themselves and to harm ordinary people. Redding argues that beliefs in witchcraft and supernatural powers were part of the political rhetoric; the system of taxation, with all its prescribed interactions between ruler and ruled, was intimately connected to these supernatural beliefs. Examines how black South Africans beliefs in supernatural powers, along with both economic and social change in the rural areas, resulted in specific rebellions and how gender relations in black South African rural families changed. 304pp, USA. OHIO U P.

The contribution of slavery to the economic and social development of South Africa is enormous, particularly in the Cape. In an accessible account, it describes the history and experiences of slaves and slave owners, recounting many and varied aspects of cultural, social and economic life at the time. Part I covers the period from 1654 to emancipation in 1834, during which time many slaves were brought from Indonesia, India and parts of Africa, with the introduction of Islam in the process. Part II tackles the legacy of slavery and the significant contribution it made to the development of the country. Part III is a guide to the many sites that are linked to slavery in the Western Cape. Many of them have been declared heritage sites. Full colour photographs, maps and location details are included. Alan Mountain is the author of First People of the Cape. Notes, maps, 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP/NEW AFRICA BOOKS.

First full-length study by a descendant of Cape slaves. Argues for the profound syncretism of that institution, whose influences are still felt in South African culture. Includes original research on slave orchestras. Index, bib, notes, col & b/w illus, 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AMPERSAND FOUNDATION. 1919760628