Urban history in South Africa

South African Historical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue , 2005, Pages 19-31

  Freund, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 33751084735     PISSN: 02582473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02582470509464862     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. C. Saunders, The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class (Cape Town, 1988)
2. P.J. van der Merwe, Die Noordwartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek 1770-1842 (The Hague, 1937)
3. For his take on the distinguished urban historians in South Africa as well as elsewhere, see: C. Saunders, Writing History: South Africa's Urban Past and other Essays (Pretoria, 1992)
4. D. Welsh, 'The Growth of Towns', in M. Wilson and L. Thompson, Oxford History of South Africa, vol. 2 (London and New York, 1971)
5. M.W. Swanson, 'The Sanitation Syndrome: Bubonic Plague and Native Urban Policy in the Cape Colony 1900-09', in W. Beinart and S. Dubow, eds, Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (London, 1995)
6. For a well-known example of the continental literature, see P. Curtin, 'Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa', American Historical Review, 90 (1985), 591-615
7. C. van Onselen, New Babylon, New Nineveh: Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914 (London, 1982)
8. I. Evans, Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (Berkeley, 1997)
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10. K. Atkins, The Moon is Dead! Give Us our Money (Oxford and Portsmouth NH, 1995)
11. J. Kirk, Making a Voice: African Resistance to Segregation in South Africa (Boulder, 2000)
12. J. Robinson, The Power of Apartheid: State Power and Space in South African Cities (London, 1996)
13. See G. Minkley, 'Border Dialogues: Race, Class and Space in the Industrialization of East London, c.1902-63' (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994)
14. and W. Beinart and C. Bundy, Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa (Johannesburg, 1987)
15. V. Bickford-Smith, Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town (Cambridge, 1995)
16. P. Maylam and I. Edwards, The People's City: African Life in Twentieth Century Durban (Pietermaritzburg, 1995)
17. I. Edwards, 'Mkhumbane: African Shantytown Society in Cato Manor Farm 1946-60' (PhD thesis, University of Natal, Durban, 1989)
18. See L. Torr, 'Lamontville: A History, 1930-1960',inMaylam and Edwards, The People's City, J. Kelly, 'Durban's Industrialization and the Life and Labour of Black Workers 1920-50' (MA thesis, University of Natal, Durban, 1989). Maylam also wrote a number of interesting articles on urban life and race culminating in 'Explaining the Apartheid City'
19. See B. Maharaj, 'Breaking the Impasse, Beginning the Change: Labour Market, Unions and Social Initiative in Durban', in Freund and Padayachee, (D)urban Vortex
20. B. Maharaj, 'The "Spatial Impress" of the Central and Local States: The Group Areas Act in Durban', in D. Smith, ed., The Apartheid City and Beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa (London and Johannesburg, 1992)
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22. V. Bickford-Smith, E. van Heyningen and N. Worden, Cape Town in the Twentieth Century (Cape Town, 1999)
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24. A. Stadler, 'A Long Way to Walk: Bus Boycotts in Alexandria 1940-45', in P. Bonner, ed., Working Papers in Southern African Studies 2 (Johannesburg, 1981)
25. L. Callinicos, A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid (Johannesburg, London and Cape Town, 1993)
26. B. Bozzoli, ed., Town and Countryside in the Transvaal (Johannesburg, 1983)
27. and P. Bonner, 'African Urbanisation on the Rand in the 1950s and 1960s: Its Social Character and Political Consequences', Journal of Southern African Studies, 21, 1 (1995)
28. E. Koch, 'Without Visible Means of Subsistence: Slumyard Culture in Johannesburg', in Bozzoli, Town and Countryside in the Transvaal
29. See W. Beinart, T. Keegan and C. Bundy, eds, Putting a Plough to the Ground: Accumulation and Dispossession in Rural South Africa, 1850-1930 (Johannesburg, 1986)
30. See J. Butler, 'Housing in a Karoo Dorp', South African Historical Journal, 17 (1985) as an example
31. L. van Sittert: 'Labour, Capital and the State in the St. Helena Bay Fisheries c.1856-c.1956' (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992)
32. S. Parnell and A. Mabin, 'Rethinking Urban South Africa', Journal of Southern African Studies, 21, 1 (1995), 39
33. Ibid
34. Smith, The Apartheid City and Beyond
35. M. Brandel-Syrier, Reeftown Elite: A Study of Social Mobility in a Modern African Community on the Reef (London, 1971)
36. See B. Freund, 'The Social Character of Secondary Industry in South Africa 1915-45' but also the sense of the volume in which it appears as a whole: A. Mabin, ed., Organisation and Economic Changes, Southern African Studies V (Johannesburg, 1989)
37. T. Caldeira, City of Wails (Berkeley, 2001)
38. J.H.F. Purcell, 'Durban, South Africa: Local Politics in a Plural Society' (PhD thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974)
39. S. Moffett and B. Freund, 'Elite Formation and Elite Bonding: Social Structure and Development in Durban', Urban Forum, 15, 2 (2004), 134-61. A classic in my own student formation was R. Dahl, Who Governs? (New Haven, 1961). The title asks a question we need to pose more
40. C. Ambler and J. Crush, Liquor and Labor in Southeern Africa (Athens, Ohio, 1992)
41. L. White, The Comforts of Home (Chicago, 1990)
42. B. Raftopoulos and T. Yoshikuni, eds, Sites of Struggle: Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History (Harare, 1999)
43. See, for instance, P. Lloyd, A.L. Mabogunje and B. Awe, eds, The City of Ibadan (Cambridge, 1967)
44. and J. Abu Lughod, Cairo: One Thousand Years of the City Victorious (Princeton, 1971) for some very different African cities
45. E.L.P. Stals, Afrikaners in die Goudstad, two vols (Cape Town, 1978)
46. E. Joubert, Isobelle 's Journey (Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2002)
47. For the emphasis on urban segregation as a causative factor more generally, see M. Swanson, 'The Urban Origins of Segregation', Race, 10 (1968)
48. or T.R.H. Davenport, 'The Triumph of Colonel Stallard', South African Historical Journal, 2 (1970)
49. Welsh, 'The Growth of Towns', 242