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

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According to Wikipedia, Saul H. Dubow, is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He previously taught at University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London.

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Scientific racism in modern South Africa (1996) (302)
Afrikaner Nationalism, Apartheid and the Conceptualization of ‘Race’ (1992) (134)
A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000 (2006) (126)
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (1995) (123)
Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919-36 (1989) (113)
How British was the British World? The Case of South Africa (2009) (77)
Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of ‘South Africanism’, 1902–10 (1997) (75)
African National Congress (2021) (70)
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. A Ghost Story and a Biography (2010) (55)
South Africa's 1940s: worlds of possibilities (2005) (45)
Scientism, Social Research and the Limits of ‘South Africanism’: The Case of Ernst Gideon Malherbe (2001) (43)
Ethnic euphemisms and racial echoes (1994) (41)
Race, civilisation and culture: The elaboration of segregationist discourse in the inter-war years (1986) (39)
Smuts, the United Nations and the Rhetoric of Race and Rights (2008) (37)
Racial segregation and the origins of apartheid in twentieth century South Africa, 1919-36 (1989) (34)
Science and Society in Southern Africa (2002) (33)
Apartheid, 1948-1994 (2014) (33)
Christian-nationalism and the rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, 1918-48 (1989) (32)
Holding ‘a just balance between white and black’: the native affairs department in South Africa c. 1920–33 (1986) (27)
South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights (2012) (24)
New Approaches to High Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid (2017) (20)
Earth History, Natural History, and Prehistory at the Cape, 1860–1875 (2004) (19)
INTRODUCTION: The historiography of segregation and apartheid (2013) (19)
Human origins, race typology and the other Raymond Dart (1996) (18)
Introduction: ethnicity, identity and nationalism in Southern Africa (1994) (17)
A commonwealth of science: The British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929 (2000) (15)
Land, Labour and Merchant Capital in the Pre-Industrial Rural Economy of the Cape: The Experience of the Graaff-Reinet District (1852-72) (1984) (15)
Imagining the new South Africa in the era of reconstruction (2002) (13)
Thoughts on South Africa: some preliminary ideas (2006) (12)
Fault Lines: A Primer on Race, Science and Society (2020) (11)
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The imperial colossus and the colonial parish pump (1997) (10)
‘MACMILLAN, VERWOERD, AND THE 1960 ‘WIND OF CHANGE’ SPEECH* (2011) (10)
The Commonwealth and South Africa: From Smuts to Mandela (2017) (10)
Mental Testing and the Understanding of Race in Twentieth-Century South Africa (1991) (10)
Eugenics in South Africa: paradoxes in the place of race? (2010) (10)
WERE THERE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES IN THE WAKE OF THE SHARPEVILLE-LANGA VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1960?* (2015) (9)
South Africa and South Africans: nationality, belonging, citizenship (2011) (8)
The Elaboration of Segregationist Ideology, c. 1900–36 (1989) (8)
The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power (1990) (8)
Racial irredentism, ethnogenesis, and white supremacy in high-apartheid South Africa (2015) (8)
[Review] D K Fieldhouse (1986) Black Africa 1945-1980: economic decolonization and arrested development (1989) (8)
Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space – Introduction (2019) (6)
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa 1918-1948 (1994) (6)
WULF SACHS'S BLACK HAMLET: A CASE OF ‘PSYCHIC VIVISECTION’? (1993) (6)
‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency’, in Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (eds), Selected Subaltern Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45-86 (2016) (4)
The Cape Town intellectuals: Ruth Schechter and her circle, 1907–1954 (2003) (4)
Uncovering the Historic Strands of Egalitarian Liberalism in South Africa (2014) (4)
Patriotism of place and race: Hancock on South Africa (1997) (3)
[Review] Ivan Evans (1997) Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa (1998) (3)
The idea of race in early 20th Century South Africa: Some preliminary thoughts (1989) (3)
Chapter 5: A mania for measurement: statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid (2017) (3)
Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory: 'mixing up rubble, trouble and stratification' (2019) (3)
Segregation and Cheap Labour (1989) (2)
International Human Rights Law in an African Context (2009) (2)
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa (2)
[Review] Philip Bonner, Deborah Posel, Peter Delius, eds. (1993) Apartheid's genesis 1935-1962 (1996) (2)
200 Years of Astronomy in South Africa: From the Royal Observatory to the ‘Big Bang’ of the Square Kilometre Array (2018) (2)
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (1970) (2)
‘Number in the Colonial Imagination’, in Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (eds), Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 314-39 (2016) (2)
South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights: The History of Rights in South Africa (2012) (2)
[Review] Steven Ruskin (2004) John Herschel's Cape voyage. Private science, public imagination and the ambitions of empire (2005) (2)
Toward understanding metal stress in environmental microbial flora (1999) (2)
Forum: Liberalism in South Africa (1984) (1)
Fascism and Afrikanerdom (1992) (1)
Chapter 1: Field sciences in scientific fields: entomology, botany and the early ethnographic monograph in the work of H.-A. Junod (2017) (1)
Design of a selective catalytic reduction system for NO sub x abatement in a coal-fired cogeneration plant (1992) (1)
Chapter 3: A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1905 and 1929 (2017) (1)
Chapter 8: Doctors and the state: George Gale and South Africa's experiment in social medicine (2017) (1)
The new age of imperialism: British and South African perspectives (2008) (1)
The Three Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock (2011) (1)
A Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa – By Roger S. Levine (2011) (1)
Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century (2020) (1)
How has South Africa's scientific landscape changed? (1970) (1)
South Africa to the Sources of Apartheid (1990) (1)
Structure and Conflict in the Native Affairs Department (1989) (1)
Special Issue for Shula Marks (2001) (1)
Introduction to 'Science and society in Southern Africa' (2009) (1)
Chapter 6: Police dogs and state rationality in early twentieth-century South Africa (2017) (0)
The curious absence of ‘civil war’ in Africa: a comment on David Armitage’s Civil Wars (2018) (0)
The Ideology of Native Administration (1989) (0)
[Review] William Plomer (1985) Turbott Wolfe; William Plomer (1984) Cecil Rhodes (1987) (0)
Patrick Allan Lifford Harries, 1950–2016 (2017) (0)
Chapter 2: Making canes credible in colonial Mauritius (2017) (0)
THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience. Edited by MILTON SHAIN and RICHARD MENDELSOHN. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, n.d. (2002?). Pp. 234. Rand 149.95, paperback (ISBN 1-86842-132-5). (2004) (0)
Posel, Deborah. - The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961 : Conflict and Compromise (1993) (0)
Liberalism and segregation revisited (1990) (0)
[Review] Iain R. Smith (1996) The origins of the South African war 1899-1902 (1997) (0)
Science, Reconstruction and the Imagining of the First ‘New’ South Africa, 1902–29 (2021) (0)
WERE THERE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES IN THE WAKE OF THE SHARPEVILLE-LANGA VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1960? – CORRIGENDUM (2015) (0)
[Review] James Sanders (2000) South Africa and the international media, 1972-1979 (2000) (0)
Mandela: the historians' view (2014) (0)
John Higginson. Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948. (2016) (0)
The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930–48 (2021) (0)
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa (1991) (0)
The Republic of Science, 1948–90 (2021) (0)
The Passage of Hertzog’s Native Bills, Part One (1989) (0)
Introduction: The Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century (2020) (0)
Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa by IVAN EVANS. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 403+xiii, £42.00 cloth. (1998) (0)
Charles Bloomberg's Christian-Nationalism and the Development of the Afrikaner Broderbond in South Africa, 1918-48 (1990) (0)
Chapter 4: For the public benefit': livestock statistics and expertise in the late nineteenth-century Cape Colony, 1850-19001 (2017) (0)
‘The Ideology of “Tribalism”’, Journal of Modern African Studies, 9, pp. 253-61 (2016) (0)
Wulf Sachs: Black Hamlet (1996) (0)
Chapter 7: The Race Welfare Society: eugenics and birth control in Johannesburg, 1930-40 (2017) (0)
Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870–1902 (2021) (0)
Keith Hancock, race, and empire (2010) (0)
GLOBAL SCIENCE, NATIONAL HORIZONS: SOUTH AFRICA IN DEEP TIME AND SPACE (2020) (0)
[Review] Steven Debroey (1989) South Africa to the sources of apartheid (1990) (0)
Nature's Way (1991) (0)
Rhodes Must Fall, Brexit, and Circuits of Knowledge and Influence (2019) (0)
The White Man’s World. By Bill Schwarz. (2013) (0)
[Review] Carolyn Hamilton (1998) Terrific majesty: the powers of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention (2000) (0)
[Review] Adam Ashforth (1990) The politics of official discourse in twentieth-century South Africa (1991) (0)
Reviews of Books:Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa Jock McCulloch (2003) (0)
INTRODUCTION (2021) (0)
Chapter 9: Technical development and the human factor: sciences of development in Rhodesia's Native Affairs Department (2017) (0)
Black Hamlet: A Case of “Psychic Vivisection”? (2018) (0)
Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century (2021) (0)
[Review] Catherine Higgs (1997) The ghost of equality: The public lives of DDT Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959 (1998) (0)
[Review] Karel Schoeman (1996) The face of the country: A South African family album 1860-1914 (1999) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II : Colonial Knowledges (2016) (0)
The End of Apartheid. Diary of a Revolution. By Robin Renwick (2016) (0)
South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988 (1991) (0)
In brief: History (1999) (0)
Books reviewed: Development and settlement in Botswana (1986) (0)
Remembering the South African War. Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War: from 1899 to the Present. By Peter Donaldson (2014) (0)
An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development (2007) (0)
AFRIKANER POLITICAL HISTORY The Afrikaners. An Historical Interpretation. By G. H. L. Le May. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp. 280. £20 (ISBN 0-631-18204-7). (1997) (0)
Siegfried Huigen, Knowledge and Colonialism: Eighteenth-Century Travellers in South Africa . Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xii+273. ISBN 978-90-04-17743-7. €99.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)

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