Description
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
William Beinart is emeritus professor at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He was educated at the Universities of Cape Town and London and worked at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He was Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford and President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2008-10). His research has focussed largely on the history of South Africa, especially the Eastern Cape, environmental history and land reform.
Publications include Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa (1987 with Colin Bundy), Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001), The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003), African Local Knowledge (2013 with Karen Brown); Rights to Land (2017 with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay) and The Scientific Imagination in South Africa, 1700 to the Present (2021 with Saul Dubow).
Luvuyo Wotshela is History Professor, and Head of the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare (UFH). He was educated at the Universities of Fort Hare, Rhodes, and Oxford. At Fort Hare he has taught Environmental Studies and History and in his current post is responsible for the archives of the national liberation movements at the University. His research focuses on the social history of South Africa’s African communities, mainly in the Eastern Cape, including land reform and settlements. Publications include: Umbutho WesiZwe: The African National Congress of the Eastern Cape (2012, with Jeff Peires); Wiseman Nkuhlu: A Life of Purpose (2017); and Capricious Patronage and Captive Land: A Socio-political History of Resettlement and Change in South Africa’s Eastern Cape 1960 to 2005 (2018).
Book size: 228mm x 152mm
Pages: 292 Pages black and white and colour
ISBN: 978-1-77630-695-4
