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Nigel Worden's Degrees

Bachelors History University of Cape Town
Masters History University of Cape Town
PhD History University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Nigel Worden is a British/South African historian who has researched the history of Cape slavery and the social and cultural history of early colonial Cape Town. He is Emeritus Professor of History and retired from the Historical Studies department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2016. He graduated from Jesus College Cambridge and was subsequently Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Edinburgh. He holds MA and PhD degrees in History from the University of Cambridge and BA degrees in Art History and Linguistics from the University of South Africa.

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Nigel Worden's Published Works

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Slavery in Dutch South Africa (1985) (128)
Cape Town: The making of a city : an illustrated social history (1998) (124)
The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy (1993) (116)
The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid (1995) (85)
Breaking the Chains. Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony (1995) (82)
National identity and heritage tourism in Melaka (2003) (45)
'Where it all Began': the representation of Malaysian heritage in Melaka (2001) (43)
Contested heritage at the Cape Town waterfront (1996) (29)
Unwrapping History at the Cape Town Waterfront (1994) (25)
THE CHANGING POLITICS OF SLAVE HERITAGE IN THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA* (2009) (24)
Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony (1996) (23)
New Approaches to VOC History in South Africa (2007) (22)
Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807 (2016) (18)
Cape slaves in the paper empire of the VOC (2014) (17)
Signs of the Times: Tourism and Public History at Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (1996) (13)
Artisan conflicts in a colonial context: the cape town blacksmith strike of 1752 (2005) (12)
Space and identity in VOC Cape Town (1999) (12)
Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony (2013) (8)
Armed with Swords and Ostrich Feathers: Militarism and Cultural Revolution in the Cape Slave Uprising of 1808 (2010) (7)
‘Below the Line the Devil Reigns’: Death and Dissent aboard a VOC Vessel (2009) (7)
Diverging Histories: Slavery and its Aftermath in the Cape Colony and Mauritius (1992) (7)
Revolt in Cape Colony slave society (2007) (6)
After Race and Class: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Early Colonial Cape Society (2010) (5)
Slavery at the Cape (1984) (5)
Adjusting to emancipation: Freed slaves and farmers in the mid-nineteenth-century South-Western Cape (2017) (4)
Forging a reputation: artisan honour and the Cape Town blacksmith strike of 1752 (2002) (4)
Strangers ashore: sailor identity and social conflict in mid-18th century Cape Town (2016) (3)
Violence, crime and slavery on Cape farmsteads in the eighteenth century (1982) (3)
Brazilian Slavery: A Survey From the Cape of Recent Literature in English (1991) (3)
Demanding satisfaction: violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town (2009) (3)
Missing Heads. Public History in South Africa (1996) (2)
The Environment and Slave Resistance in the Cape Colony (2018) (1)
Rural slavery in the western districts of Cape Colony during the eighteenth century (1982) (1)
Reports on Colloquium Sessions (2004) (1)
Writing the global Indian Ocean (2017) (1)
Reviews (2011) (1)
17 Constructing and Contesting Histories of Slavery at the Cape, South Africa (2011) (1)
LIVING SLAVERY, CREATING A CREOLE SOCIETY Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. By MEGAN VAUGHAN. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+341. £64 (ISBN 0-8223-3402-3402-x); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8223-3399-6). (2006) (1)
Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s Public History (2019) (0)
Space and Identity in VOC (Dutch East India Company) Cape Town (1999) (0)
Cape Lives of the Eighteenth Century, Karel Schoeman : book review (2012) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
Marieke Bloembergen, Colonial Spectacles: The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies at the World Exhibitions, 1880–1931 . Beverly Jackson Translator. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006. xviii + 478 pp. ISBN: 9971-69-330-5 (hbk.). $36.00. (2007) (0)
Sue Peabody. Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies. (2019) (0)
Oxford in search of history : learner's book (2009) (0)
Wil O. Dijk, Seventeenth-Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634–1680 . NIAS Monographs 102. Copenhagen: NIAS Press; Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006. xviii + 348 pp. ISBN: 87-91114-69-1 (NIAS; pbk.); 9971-69-304-6 (Singapore University Press; pbk.). (2007) (0)
J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History . New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. xviii + 350 pp. ISBN 0-393-05179-X (hbk.); 0-393-92568-4 (pbk.). (2004) (0)
Richard B. Allen. European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. 378 pp. ISBN: 9780821421079. $34.95. (2017) (0)
Slavery and its aftermath in the Cape colony: a comparison with Mauritius (1992) (0)
STIMULATING BUT INSULAR Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA and CHRISTIAN JENNINGS. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Pp. xxi+409. £50; $75 (ISBN 1-58046-134-4). (2005) (0)
Peter H. Hoffenberg, An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London (University of California Press) 2001. 418 pp., illus. ISBN 0-520-21891-4. (2003) (0)
Honourable Intentions? : Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850. (2016) (0)
John B. Hattendorf, ‘The Boundless Deep…’: The European Conquest of the Oceans, 1450 to 1840. Providence, RI: The John Carter Brown Library, 2003. xxi + 204 ISBN: 0-916617-62-9 (hbk.); 0-91617-63-7 (pbk.). (2004) (0)
Seymour Drescher, The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, vi + 307 pp. ISBN 0-19-509346-1. (2004) (0)
The South Atlantic Slave Trade (1990) (0)
John Philip (1775–1851). Missions, race and politics in South Africa . By Andrew Ross. Pp. ix + 249. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986. £14.90 (cloth), £8.90 (paper), 0 08 032457 6; 0 08 032467 3 (1989) (0)
by the British blockade of Madagascar, combined with a hardening of colonial ideologies and practices under Vichy, conspired to create a "golden age for colons", or settlers, and to increase the scope of forced labour (2009) (0)

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