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

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According to Wikipedia, Terence "Terry" Osborn Ranger was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe. Part of the post-colonial generation of historians, his work spanned the pre- and post-Independence period in Zimbabwe, from the 1960s to the present. He published and edited dozens of books and wrote hundreds of articles and book chapters, including co-editing The Invention of Tradition with Eric Hobsbawm. He was the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford and the first Africanist fellow of the British Academy.

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The invention of tradition (1986) (6248)
The Invention of Tradition: The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa (2012) (457)
Nationalist Historiography, Patriotic History and the History of the Nation: the Struggle over the Past in Zimbabwe (2004) (447)
The Invention of Tradition Revisited: The Case of Colonial Africa (1993) (315)
Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe (1987) (209)
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 (1987) (198)
Postcolonial Identities in Africa (1996) (195)
Religious Movements and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa (1986) (184)
Legitimacy and the state in twentieth-century Africa : essays in honour of A.H.M. Kirk-Greene (1993) (152)
Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe (1999) (151)
Connexions between ‘Primary Resistance’ Movements and Modern Mass Nationalism In East and Central Africa. Part I (1968) (145)
Dance and society in eastern Africa, 1890-1970: The Beni Ngoma (1975) (143)
Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study (1985) (124)
Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (2000) (121)
Missionaries, migrants, and the Manyika: The invention of ethnicity in Zimbabwe (1984) (115)
The Historical study of African religion (1973) (115)
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 (2002) (107)
Epidemics and Ideas Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (1992) (103)
Growing from the roots: reflections on peasant research in central and Southern Africa (1978) (90)
The invention of tribalism in Zimbabwe (1985) (89)
Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-97: A Study in African Resistance (1967) (86)
Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media (2010) (85)
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa (2002) (82)
A History of African Christianity, 1950–1975 (1980) (80)
Scotland Yard in the Bush: Medicine Murders, Child Witches and the Construction of the Occult: A Literature Review1 (2007) (76)
The African voice in Southern Rhodesia, 1898-1930 (1970) (62)
Godly medicine: the ambiguities of medical mission in southeast Tanzania, 1900-1945. (1981) (56)
Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (1995) (55)
Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (1997) (54)
The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe (2001) (50)
The rise of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe and its possible implications (2005) (48)
African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam (2007) (47)
Association Between Race and COVID-19 Outcomes Among 2.6 Million Children in England. (2021) (46)
Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant voices (1994) (46)
Whose heritage? The case of the Matobo National Park (1989) (46)
L'invention de la tradition (2006) (46)
Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (1996) (45)
The Death of Chaminuka: Spirit Mediums, Nationalism and the Guerilla War in Zimbabwe (1982) (45)
AFRICAN ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL EDUCATION IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA, 1900–1939 (1965) (44)
City Versus State in Zimbabwe: Colonial Antecedents of the Current Crisis (2007) (44)
Tradition and Travesty: Chiefs and the Administration in Makoni District, Zimbabwe, 1960–1980 (1982) (42)
Richard Boyle and the making of an Irish fortune, 1588—1614 (1957) (38)
MAKING NORTHERN RHODESIA IMPERIAL: VARIATIONS ON A ROYAL THEME, 1924–1938 (1980) (36)
TAKING HOLD OF THE LAND: HOLY PLACES AND PILGRIMAGES IN TWENTIETH–CENTURY ZIMBABWE (1987) (35)
Themes in the Christian history of Central Africa (1975) (35)
The people in African resistance: a review (1977) (33)
Aspects of Central African History (1971) (31)
The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices (2005) (30)
The Sacred Meadows. A Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African Town (2009) (29)
Dignifying Death: the Politics of Burial in Bulawayo (2004) (28)
Race and Tribe in Southern Africa: European Ideas and African Acceptance (1982) (25)
The changing of the old guard: Robert Mugabe and the revival of ZANU (1980) (24)
From Humanism to the Science of Man: Colonialism in Africa and the Understanding of Alien Societies (1976) (24)
Ethnicity and the Politics of Conflict: The Case of Matabeleland (2000) (23)
Displacement and disease: epidemics and ideas about malaria in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1945-1996. (2000) (22)
THE ‘NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY’ IN DAR ES SALAAM: AN ANSWER (1971) (22)
Territorial Cults in the history of Central Africa (1973) (22)
Culture, identity and politics : ethnic minorities in Britain (1996) (21)
War, violence and healing in Zimbabwe (1992) (21)
an Africanist comment (1987) (20)
European Attitudes and African Realities: the rise and fall of the Matolac chiefs of south-east Tanzania (1979) (20)
'Taking On the Missionary's Task': African Spirituality and the Mission Churches of Manicaland in the 1930S (1999) (18)
Agricultural Change in Modern Tanganyika: An Outline History (1971) (18)
Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960 (2010) (18)
Nationality and Nationalism: The Case of Barotseland (1968) (17)
The Mobilization of Labour and the Production of Knowledge: The Antiquarian Tradition in Rhodesia (1979) (16)
The agricultural history of Zambia (1971) (16)
Past and Present in Zimbabwe (1984) (14)
'Competition and Integration in the Religious History of North-Western Zimbabwe' (1998) (14)
COLONIALISM, CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE CAMERA (2001) (14)
Epidemics and ideas: Plagues of beasts and men; prophetic responses to epidemic in eastern and southern Africa (1992) (13)
White Presence and Power in Africa (1979) (12)
Constructions of Zimbabwe (2010) (12)
The influenza pandemic in Southern Rhodesia: a crisis of comprehension. (1986) (12)
Neuropsychiatric Ramifications of Severe COVID-19 and Other Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (2022) (12)
The Meaning of Urban Violence in Africa: Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1960 (2006) (12)
EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: A CONTINENTAL COMPARISON (2003) (11)
Literature and political economy: Arthur Shearly Cripps and the Makoni labour crisis of 1911 (1982) (11)
Connexions between ‘Primary Resistance’ Movements and Modern Mass Nationalism in East and Central Africa: II (1968) (11)
Violence Variously Remembered: The Killing of Pieter Oberholzer in July 1964 (1997) (10)
Matabeleland Since the Amnesty (1989) (10)
African Initiated Churches (2007) (10)
Medical Science and Pentecost: The Dilemma of Anglicanism in Africa (1982) (9)
The Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe (2009) (9)
The 'Ethiopian' Episode in Barotseland, 1900-1905 (1965) (9)
STRAFFORD IN IRELAND: A REVALUATION (1961) (8)
Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa (2008) (8)
Crisis in Southern Rhodesia (1960) (8)
The Fruits of The Baobab: Irene Staunton and the Zimbabwean Novel (1999) (7)
Making Zimbabwean Landscapes: Painters, Projections and Priests (1997) (7)
The African churches of Tanzania (1974) (7)
The Zimbabwe Elections: A personal experience (2002) (7)
The Historical Study of African Religions (1974) (6)
The meaning of Mwari (1974) (6)
Evangelical Attitudes toward Democracy in Kenya (2006) (6)
Europeans in Black Africa (2005) (6)
African views of the land: a research agenda (2000) (6)
The Nature Of Ethnicity: Lessons From Africa (2011) (6)
The Rewriting of African History During the Scramble: The Matabele Dominance in Mashonaland (1967) (6)
Foundations for Democracy in Zimbabwean Evangelical Christianity (2006) (5)
The influenza pandemic in Southern Rhodesia (1986) (5)
Towards a radical practice of academic freedom : the experience of East and Central Africa (1981) (5)
Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67 (2013) (5)
Faction fighting, race consciousness and worker consciousness: a note on the Jagersfontein riots of 1914 (1978) (5)
From Apartheid to the New Dispensation (2006) (5)
Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa (2012) (5)
Influenza, Shingles and Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake, Offer and Refusal in Adult Populations at High-Risk for COVID-19: A UK Population-Based Cohort Study (2021) (5)
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN ZIMBABWE A Report on the Britain -Zimbabwe Society Research Day, St Antony's College, Oxford, 23 April 1994 (1995) (5)
Christianity and Indigenous Peoples: A Personal Overview (2003) (5)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE FIRST PEOPLES: SOME SECOND THOUGHTS (2005) (5)
Five women of Sennar. (1991) (5)
Evangelicals and Democracy in Mozambique (2006) (5)
Evangelicals, Muslims, and Democracy (2006) (5)
Pictures must prevail: Sex and the social history of African photography in Bulawayo, 1930-1960 (2001) (4)
Respectable and Responsible Women: Methodist and Roman Catholic women's organisations in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1919–1985, by Marja Hinfelaar. Utrecht: Bookcentrum, 2003. 184 pp. ISBN 90-239-1153-9 (paperback) (2005) (4)
The Front Line Runs through Every Woman: women and local resistance in the Zimbabwean liberation war by Eleanor O'Gorman Woodbridge: James Currey, 2011. Pp. xv+192, £17·99 (pbk) (2012) (4)
Emerging themes of African history : proceedings (1968) (4)
Chingaira Makoni's Head: Myth, History, and the Colonial Experience (1988) (4)
Analysis of incidence of motor neuron disease in England 1998–2019: use of three linked datasets (2022) (4)
President Frederick Chiluba and Zambia (2006) (4)
Myth and legend in urban oral memory: Bulawayo, 1930–60 (2008) (3)
African Identities: Ethnicity, Nationality and History. The Case of Matabeleland, 1893 -1993 (1994) (3)
The Zimbabwe Presidential Election: A Personal Experience (2002) (3)
THE POLITICS OF THE IRRATIONAL IN CENTRAL AFRICA (1963) (3)
Living Ritual and Indigenous Archaeology:: The Case of Zimbabwe (2007) (3)
Nationalism, democracy and human rights (2003) (3)
Thompson Samkange: Tambaram and Beyond (1993) (2)
Emerging themes of African history : proceedings of the International Congress of African Historians held at University College, Dar es Salaam, October 1965 (1968) (2)
Tales of the ‘Wild West’: Gold-Diggers and Rustlers in South-West Zimbabwe, 1898–1940. An Essay in the Use of Criminal Court Records for Social History (1993) (2)
The Historical Study of African Religion with Reference to East and Central Africa (1974) (2)
THE LAST WORD ON RHODES (1964) (2)
The Games Ethic and Imperialism, J.A. Mangan. Viking, London (1986), 239, £14.95 (1988) (2)
The Past Is a Foreign Country.David Lowenthal (1987) (2)
New light from the 'dark continent' (1960) (2)
The historiography of Southern Rhodesia (1971) (2)
Roger Casement and Africa (1966) (2)
Hormone replacement therapy in women with cancer and risk of cancer-specific mortality and cardiovascular disease: a protocol for a cohort study from Scotland and Wales (2021) (1)
Books reviewed: Healers and hierarchies (1987) (1)
Miasma and Disease: Public Health and the Environment in the Pre-Industrial Age@@@Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (1993) (1)
Isabel Hofmeyr, The Portable Bunyan: a transnational history of The Pilgrim's Progress . Princeton: Princeton University Press (pb $22.95, £14.95 – 0 691 11656 3; hb US $65.00, £41.95 – 0 691 11655 5). 2004, 314 pp. (2005) (1)
Reclaiming The African City: The World And The Township (2010) (1)
Simon Vengayi Muzenda and the Struggle for and Liberation of Zimbabwe, by Ngwabi Bhebe. Gweru: Mambo Press, 2004. xi + 297 pp. ISBN 086922-780-7 (2005) (1)
The Church in the Age of African Revolution (1968) (1)
The Shona and their Neighbours (1994) (1)
The Making of Southern Rhodesia (1985) (1)
Introducing Zambia A History of Northern Rhodesia, Early Days to 1953 . By L. H. Gann. London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. Pp. 478. 55s. (1964) (1)
Reconstructing Zimbabwe's Past: The Professional Historians Return (2007) (1)
The Malawi Party (1960) (1)
The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, by Ranka Primorac (2008) (1)
Bengt Sundkler@@@A History of the Church in Africa (2000) (1)
The Compleat Cambridge (1987) (1)
Holy Men and Rural Communities in Zimbabwe, 1970–1980 (1983) (1)
Conflict in Rhodesia: A Question of Evidence (1978) (1)
Aspects of Central African History@@@A History of Central Africa (1969) (1)
Honour in African History, by John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 430 pp. £16.99 paperback. ISBN 0521546850 (paperback). (2005) (1)
Reviews of Books:Nationalism and African Intellectuals Toyin Falola (2002) (1)
Writing African History (2006) (1)
The View Across the River. Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism, by Jeff Guy. Cape Town: David Philip; Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia and Oxford: James Currey, 2002. pp. xi + 498 pp. £19.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐791‐4 (2002) (1)
The Fight for Rhodesia: the armed conflict in Southern Rhodesia since UDI (1976) (1)
Preexisting Neuropsychiatric Conditions and Associated Risk of Severe COVID-19 Infection and Other Acute Respiratory Infections (2022) (1)
Hormone replacement therapy in women with cancer and risk of cancer-specific mortality and cardiovascular disease: a protocol for a cohort study from Scotland and Wales (2021) (0)
Deborah Potts: Zimbabwe. Revised edition. (World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 4.) xxxi, 368 pp. Oxford, Santa Barbara and Denver: Clio Press, 1993. £56.50. (1995) (0)
Counter-insurgency in Rhodesia (1985) (0)
THE POLITICS OF WAR VETERANS Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980–1987. By NORMA KRIGER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+293. £45 (ISBN 0-521-81823-0). (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (review) (2006) (0)
SCHOFFELEERS, J. Matthew, River of Blood: The Genesis of the Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. A.D. 1600, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, xiii, 325 pp., 0 299 13324 9 (1996) (0)
Colin Murray and Peter Sanders, Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: the anatomy of a moral crisis . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International Africa Institute, London (hb £50.00 – 0 7486 2285 4). 2005, 512 pp. (2006) (0)
The Recent Political History of South Central Africa (1977) (0)
Africa Ruth Weiss with Jane Parpart, Sir Garfield Todd and the making of Zimbabwe, xx, 234 pp. London: British Academic Press, 1999. £39.50. (2000) (0)
ZIMBABWEAN DIAMONDS (2011) (0)
READY WHEN THE LORD SHALL COME (1976) (0)
Spanish influenza redux: revisiting the mother of all pandemics (2018) (0)
Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War (review) (2011) (0)
Review: The Upstart Earl. A Study of the Social and Mental World of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork, 1566–1643 (1984) (0)
Religion and the Ethiopian famine (1985) (0)
Christianity, Capitalism and Empire: the state of the debate (2006) (0)
Subaltern studies 7 : writings on South Asian history and society (1993) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
The invention of tribalism in Zimbabwe: a historian's perspective (1994) (0)
Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa. KAREN E. FIELDS (1987) (0)
The recent history of central Africa (1965) (0)
Book Review: The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2010) (0)
Review article: Africa looks at Southern Africa: a review of journals (1988) (0)
More than Malcontents (1987) (0)
Christian Mission, Capitalism & Empire: The state of the debate (2005) (0)
Recent developments in the study of African religious and cultural history and their relevance for the historiography of the diaspora (1973) (0)
Essays in Imperial Government edited by K. Robinson and F. Madden Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1963. Pp. viii + 293. 35s. (1964) (0)
Flickering Shadows: Cinema and identity in colonial Zimbabwe, by J. M. Burns. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, Africa Series No. 77, 2002. xxv + 278 pp. $28.00 paperback. ISBN 0‐89680‐224‐8 (paperback) (2003) (0)
The last days of the Empire of Mwene Mutapa 1898 to 1917 (1963) (0)
A LABORATORY FOR THEORIES OF GENDER AND RACE IN ZIMBABWE (2007) (0)
John Parker Richard Rathbone African History. A Very Short Introduction , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xi, 165 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 280248 4. £6.99 (2008) (0)
African Religious and Cultural History and the Historiography of the Diaspora (1973) (0)
Southern Rhodesia, 1961 Trouble Spot? (1961) (0)
SSRC Seminar on interpretation of public rituals (carnival) (2006) (0)
Christianity in Central Africa (1976) (0)
Introduction: penetrating appearances (1988) (0)
Dr Rotberg's Africa (1967) (0)
Lidwien Kapteijns. Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991. (2014) (0)
Richard Gray, 7 July 1929 – 7 August 2005 (2006) (0)
AFR volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1982) (0)
Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe (review) (2006) (0)
Reviews of Books:Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana Sandra E. Greene (2003) (0)
DAVID KILLINGRAY, with MARTIN PLAUT, Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War . Oxford: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 015 5). 2010, 296 pp. (2011) (0)
Frontiers: From the Intimate to the Expansive (2009) (0)
A French View of Colonial Africa (1975) (0)
Mirror Images (1974) (0)
Work ( s ) : The Historical Study of African Religion (2007) (0)
ISSUE INTRODUCTION (2018) (0)
Monarch of all the Surveyed (1989) (0)
Afterword (2011) (0)
The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (review) (2008) (0)
Whiteness in Rhodesia: race, landscape, and the problem of belonging by D. M. Hughes New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. Pp. xx+204, $30.00 (pbk). (2012) (0)
Malawian Perspectives (1972) (0)
The Survival of the Luckiest (1984) (0)
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba, by John Peel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. xi + 420 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0‐253‐33794‐1 (2001) (0)
Ethnic Conflict in Matabeleland (2000) (0)
Epidemics and ideas: Past and Present Publications (1992) (0)
Epidemics and ideas: Frontmatter (1992) (0)
Factors influencing influenza, pneumococcal and shingles vaccine uptake and refusal in older adults: a population-based cross-sectional study in England (2023) (0)
Hormone replacement therapy and cancer survival: a longitudinal cohort study: protocol paper (2021) (0)
Identifying key signs of motor neurone disease in primary care: a nested case–control study using the QResearch database (2022) (0)
Exploring the interface between adolescent dysmenorrhoea and endometriosis: a protocol for a cohort and nested case–control study within the QResearch Database (2023) (0)
Analysis of uptake, effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccinations in pregnancy using the QResearch database: research protocol and statistical analysis plan (2022) (0)

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