William Beinart
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South African historian
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William Beinart's Degrees
- PhD History University of Oxford
- Masters History University of Oxford
- Bachelors History University of Cape Town
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Beinart is a South African historian and Africanist. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He taught at the University of Bristol from 1983 to 1997, and is now a professor of race relations and director of graduate studies at the African Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His focuses are South Africa and the developments of racism.
William Beinart's Published Works
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Published Works
- Twentieth-Century South Africa (1996) (376)
- Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development: a Southern African exploration, 1900–1960 (1984) (256)
- The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950 (2003) (208)
- An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human–predator relations (2017) (199)
- Environment and Empire (2007) (184)
- African history and environmental history. (2000) (171)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860-1930 (1982) (134)
- Putting a plough to the ground : accumulation and dispossession in rural South Africa, 1850-1930 (1987) (129)
- Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (1995) (123)
- Introduction: the politics of colonial conservation (1989) (113)
- Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (1995) (94)
- Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890-1930 (1988) (88)
- Social History and African Environments (2003) (82)
- Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective: A Review Article (2004) (74)
- Political and collective violence in Southern African historiography (1992) (70)
- THE NIGHT OF THE JACKAL: SHEEP, PASTURES AND PREDATORS IN THE CAPE (1998) (54)
- Transkeian smallholders and agrarian reform (1992) (50)
- Why Have South African Smallholders Largely Abandoned Arable Production in Fields? A Case Study (2017) (46)
- Experts and Expertise in Colonial Africa Reconsidered: Science and the Interpenetration of Knowledge (2009) (45)
- Transhumance, Animal Diseases and Environment in the Cape, South Africa (2007) (43)
- EMPIRE, HUNTING AND ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA (1990) (41)
- Men, science, travel and nature in the eighteenth and nineteenth‐century Cape (1998) (36)
- The Historical Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913 (2014) (35)
- Transkeian Migrant Workers and Youth Labour on the Natal Sugar Estates 1918–1948 (1990) (33)
- Conflict in Qumbu: rural consciousness, ethnicity and violence in the colonial Transkei, 1880–1913 (1981) (27)
- Joyini Inkomo: Cattle Advances and the Origins of Migrancy from Pondoland (1979) (27)
- Beyond ‘Homelands’: Some Ideas about the History of African Rural Areas in South Africa (2012) (25)
- History of the African People (1986) (25)
- European Traders and the Mpondo Paramountcy, 1878–1886 (1979) (22)
- Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape 1890-1930. (1988) (22)
- The origins of the indlavini : Male associations and migrant labour in the Transkei (1991) (22)
- Speaking for themselves (1991) (21)
- Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape (2011) (20)
- Chieftaincy and the Concept of Articulation: South Africa ca. 1900–1950 (1985) (19)
- INTRODUCTION: The historiography of segregation and apartheid (2013) (19)
- Soil erosion, animals and pasture over the longer term: environmental destruction in southern Africa (1996) (17)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Notes (1982) (14)
- The Renaturing of African Animals: Film and Literature in the 1950s and 1960s (2001) (14)
- School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2010) (14)
- African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa (2013) (14)
- Land Untitled (2018) (14)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Crops, cattle and the origins of labour migrancy, 1894–1911 (1982) (13)
- Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa (2010) (13)
- Animal disease and the limits of local knowledge: dealing with ticks and tick-borne diseases in South Africa (2013) (11)
- A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland (2014) (9)
- Social History of African Environments (2004) (9)
- ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (1996) (8)
- The Union, The Nation, and the Talking Crow: The ideology and tactics of the Independent ICU in East London (1985) (8)
- Vets, viruses and environmentalism : The cape in the 1870s and 1880s : The making of African landscapes (1997) (7)
- Wildlife Media and Representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s (2009) (7)
- An overview of themes in the agrarian and environmental history of the Karoo since c.1800§ (2018) (7)
- African history, environmental history and race relations : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 6 May 1999 (1999) (7)
- Smallholders and Land Reform: A Realistic Perspective (2018) (7)
- Farmers' strategies and land reform in the Orange Free State (1994) (6)
- Ethnic particularism, worker consciousness and nationalism, the experience of a South African migrant 1930-1960 (1984) (5)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Preface (1982) (4)
- Farmers' strategies and the implications for Land Reform in the Orange Free State (1994) (4)
- Cape workers in German South-West Africa, 1904-1912 (1981) (4)
- Economic change in Pondoland in the Nineteenth Century (1977) (4)
- The Great Convergence. Environmental Histories of BRICS (2018) (3)
- Cactus Pear as Dryland Fodder: Ambovombe Farm, Madagascar and Wellwood Farm, South Africa Compared, c.1920–1950 (2005) (3)
- Long Way Home, A: Migrant worker worlds 1800–2014 (2014) (3)
- Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See (2007) (3)
- FYI Workshop: Some Comparative Comments (2010) (2)
- Preachers, Peasants and Politics in Southern Africa, 1835–1880: African Christian Communities in Natal, Pondoland and Zululand (1980) (2)
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (1970) (2)
- Wild things: nature and the social imagination (2013) (2)
- The Mpondo Revolt Through the Eyes of Leonard Mdingi and Anderson Ganyile (2011) (2)
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa (2)
- Agrarian change, population movements and land reform in the Free State (1995) (2)
- Eastern Cape land reform pilot project pre-planning report. Working paper no. 25: Land and Agricultural Policy Centre and the Border Rural Committee (1995) (1)
- 8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective (2019) (1)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Rural differentiation, alliance and conflict, 1910–1930 (1982) (1)
- Social Change in the Transvaal (1984) (1)
- Human Rights Under African Constitutions (1)
- Land reform, rural inequality and agrarian change: the case of Isidenge, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape (2020) (1)
- Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture in the Western Cape (1998) (1)
- Book reviews: Future review (1983) (1)
- Conservation in Africa: Introduction (1988) (1)
- Special issue for Terry Ranger (1997) (1)
- Amafelandawonye (The Diehards): rural popular protest and women's movements in Herschel District, South Africa, in the 1920s (1984) (1)
- Special Issue for Shula Marks (2001) (1)
- The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650–1790 . By L. C. Rookmaaker. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1989. Pp. xii + 368. £58. (1993) (1)
- Response to the review by Ben Cousins of Rights to Land: A Guide to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in South Africa (2021) (1)
- Review of The Dead Will Arise by Peires, JB (1993) (1)
- ACADEMIC AMNESIA AND THE POVERTY OF POLEMICS (2005) (1)
- Hunting and animals: from game to wildlife (2002) (0)
- Representations and perceptions of the Kruger National Park and the Manyeleti Game Reserve, 1926-2010 (2014) (0)
- Next Steps Towards Land Reform (2019) (0)
- Empire and the Visual Representation of Nature, 1860–19601 (2008) (0)
- Review of The migrant farmer in the history of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842 by Beck, RB (1995) (0)
- Review of The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa by Rookmaker, LC (1993) (0)
- INTRODUCTION (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Chiefs and headmen in Pondoland, 1905–1930 (1982) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Postscript (1982) (0)
- Science, Reconstruction and the Imagining of the First ‘New’ South Africa, 1902–29 (2021) (0)
- A history of youth politics in Limpopo, 1967 - 2003 (2014) (0)
- Prickly Pear: the social history of a plant in the Eastern Cape. Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2013) (0)
- Commonwealth Bookshelf (2008) (0)
- The Republic of Science, 1948–90 (2021) (0)
- The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930–48 (2021) (0)
- How to cite: Beinart, William. “Bio-invasions, Biodiversity, and Biocultural Diversity: Some Problems with These Concepts for Historians.” In: “The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring (2014) (0)
- Ball State family housing : apartment houses (1980) (0)
- Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870–1902 (2021) (0)
- Marxism Misapplied? (1986) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- St Antony's conference on African environments, past and present (1998) (0)
- The Fortunes and Fragility of Community Conservation:: An Introduction (2012) (0)
- Scholarly Burdens in South Africa (1978) (0)
- Restitution and Land Rights in the Eastern Cape: (0)
- Timescales and environmental change (1996) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: The political economy of Pondoland in the nineteenth century (1982) (0)
- Ben Beinart remembered (2022) (0)
- Strategies for land reform and agriculture (2020) (0)
- A Riveting and Absorbing Study (1997) (0)
- Debate and Commentary (1998) (0)
- PREFACE (0)
- Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe (2022) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Frontmatter (1982) (0)
- What Can South Africa Learn from Other African Countries in Respect of Upgrading Customary Systems of Land Tenure? (2021) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Select bibliography (1982) (0)
- Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century (2021) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: BOOKS IN THIS SERIES (1982) (0)
- C. R. Cross and R. J. Haines (eds.), Towards Freehold? Options for Land and Development in South Africa's Black Rural Areas . Cape Town: Juta, 1988, xvii + 405 pp., price not given, ISBN 0 7021 2123 1 paperback. (1990) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Introduction (1982) (0)
- Other Books Received for Review (1983) (0)
- Terence Ranger as Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford (2015) (0)
- ‘From Elephant’s Foot … to Cortisone’: Boots Pure Drug Company and Dioscorea Sylvatica in South Africa, c. 1950–1963 (2019) (0)
- Consolidating Environmental Dimensions of the Colonial Experience (1969) (0)
- DISCUSS ION: THE NATURE OF POWER (2005) (0)
- Contributors (2010) (0)
- South Africa: Images of Class Reality (1985) (0)
- Obituary: Colin Murray (2014) (0)
- Review of Revolution from above, rebellion from below by Jeremy Krikler (1996) (0)
- Patrick Harries, Member of the Council of the International African Institute from 2014 to 2016 (2017) (0)
- The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930: Rural production and the South African state, 1911–1930 (1982) (0)
- Lowdown on the Highveld (1988) (0)
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