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George Fredrickson, Crain Soudien, Kate Crehan, Peter Alexander, Shula Marks, Peter Coates, Anthony Kirk‐Greene, Stephen Chan, M. C. Musambachime, Brian Raftopoulos, Terence Ranger, M. Pitcher, Lyn Schumaker and Alan Barnard

Journal of Southern African Studies, 1996, vol. 22, issue 4, 671-695

Abstract: I. Race, Class and Identity in South Africa Saul Dubow, Scientific Racism in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), xii + 320 pp., £40.00/US$64.95 hbk, ISBN 0–521–47343–8, £15.95/US$21.95 pbk, ISBN 0–521–47907. Mohamed Adhikari, ’Let us Live for our Children’. The Teachers’ League of South Africa, 1913–1940 (Buchu Books and University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town, 1993), 204 pp., ISBN 1–874863–07–5. Shula Marks, Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession (Macmillan, London; St Martin's Press, New York, 1994), xiii + 306 pp., £40.00 hbk, ISBN 0–333–5419–9. Elaine Katz, The White Death. Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1886–1910 (Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1995), pp. xiv + 283, R72.00 pbk, ISBN 186814–260–4. II. American Visions of Africa Dennis Hickey and Kenneth C. Wylie, An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century (Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1993), US$31.95 hbk, 352 pp., ISBN 0–87013–321–7. III. African Transitions. Decolonization and Democratization David Birmingham, The Decolonization of Africa (UCL Press, London, 1995), viii + 109 pp., £5.95 pbk, ISBN 1–85728–540–9. John D. Hargreaves, Decolonization in Africa (Longman, London, 1996), 320 pp., £14.99 pbk, ISBN 0–582–24917–1. Ieuan I. Griffiths, The African Inheritance (Routledge, London, 1995), 216 pp., £12.99 pbk, ISBN 0–415–01092–6. Mahmood Mamdani and Ernest Wamba‐dia‐Wamba (eds), African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy (CODESRIA, Dakar, 1995, Distrib. by African Books Collective, Oxford), 626 pp., £21.50/US$38.00 pbk, ISBN 2–86978–051–6. Harvey Glickman (ed), Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa (African Studies Association Press, Atlanta, 1995), 484 pp., US$29.00 pbk, ISBN 0–918456–74–6. Bertil Odén, Thomas Olson, Alex Davidson, Per Strand, Max Lundahl and Lena Moritz, The South African Tripod: Studies on Economics, Politics and Conflict (Nordiska Africainstitutet, Uppsala, 1994), 281 pp., ISBN 91–7106–341–2. IV. Zimbabwe: War and Youth N. Bhebe and T. Ranger (eds), Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. Volume One (James Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH; University of Zimbabwe, Harare, 1995), xi + 211 pp., £35.00 hbk, ISBN 085255–659–4, £12.95 pbk, ISBN 085255–609–8. N. Bhebe and T. Ranger (eds), Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. Volume Two (University of Zimbabwe, Harare; James Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1995), xii + 250 pp., Z$60.00 pbk, ISBN 0–908307–37–3. Pamela Reynolds, Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe (Ohio University Press, Athens, 1996), xxxix + 183 pp., £43.50 hbk, ISBN 0–8214–1121–7, £19.95 pbk, ISBN 8214–1122–5. V. Rural Histories: Production, Change and Adaptation Allen Isaacman, Cotton is the Mother of Poverty. Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938–1961 (Heinemann, Portsmouth; James Currey, London; David Philip, Cape Town, 1996), xii + 272 pp., £14.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–671–3. Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 (Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; James Currey, London; University of Zambia Press, Lusaka, 1994), xxvi + 278 pp., £12.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–612–8. Carlos Valiente‐Noailles, The Kua: Life and Soul of the Central Kalahari Bushmen (A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam and Brookfleld, VT, 1993), xi + 232 pp., £61.00 hbk, ISBN 90–6191–152–4.

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