The research in our department focuses across many areas and reflects both our commitment to continued scholarly investigation but also our support for postgraduate and first-time authors. Staff research encompasses a variety of topics and research fields in History, Heritage and Tourism. The list below features some of the past publications produced by permanent staff, research associates and postgraduate students.
Research Publications
| The White House and White Africa Routledge Advances in American History, Routledge, 2018
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| “Those bothersome Rho-dents: Lyndon B. Johnson and the thorny issue of the Rhodesian Information Office”
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| “The Luster of Chrome: Nixon, Rhodesia and the defiance of UN sanctions” |
| “The construction of ‘otherness’: A history of Chinese migrants in South Africa” |
| “Rising Chinas and the history of the South African Chinese” by K.L. Harris In: Chapter in B.P. Wong and C.B. Tan (eds) China Rise: Impacts on the Chinese overseas and their residing countries, London: Routledge Press, 2018 |
| Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements under Apartheid by Ian Macqueen University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018 |
| Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC’s Armed Struggle Johannesburg: Penguin, 2017. |
| The ANC and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa London: Routledge, 2017. |
| "Contested encounters: A select literature review of Dynastic China and Ancient Africa” In: Journal of Chinese Overseas, Volume 13, number 2, 2017, pp. 243-261. |
| “Ecumenism and the global anti-apartheid struggle: The World Council of Churches’ Special Fund in South Africa and Botswana 1970-75” In: Historia, Volume 62, number 2, 2017, pp 87-111. |
| “Class versus Nation: A History of Richard Turner’s Eclipse and Resurgence” In: Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Volume 64, number 2, 2017, pp. 29-39. |
| “From an Industrial Powerhouse to a Nation of Vendors: Over two decades of economic decline and deindustrialization in Zimbabwe 1990-2015” In: Journal of Developing Societies, Volume 33, number 1, 2017, pp. 99-125. |
| “Political independence in Africa as portrayed by the white South African press during 1960” In: Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 24, number 1, 2017, pp. 1-22. |
| “BEE-ing Chinese in South Africa: A legal historic perspective” In: Fundamina, Volume 27, number 2, 2017, pp. 441-459. |
| “Taking history on tour – Lowering the disciplinary drawbrigde” In: Journal of Tourism History, Volume 9, number 2-3, 2017, pp. 223-245. |
| “Dancing during the Great War: The South African dance floor (1914-1919)” In: South African National Cecchetti Ballet Magazine, 2017. |
| “Democratising the South African “memory bank”: Embroidering black women’s voices on the archival canvas” |
| “Smuts: Stigter van die Universiteit van Pretoria” |
| Portugese nadraai van die rebellie (1914-1915) |
| "Timol inquest opens new door to justice against apartheid atrocities” In: The Conversation – 22 October 2017.
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| "African history is a discipline on the rise – and one that raises many questions” In: The Conversation – 2 May 2017. |
| “From a silent past to a spoken future: Black women’s voices in the archival process” In: Journal of Archives and Records, 2017. |
| “A game of two sides: The formal division of rugby in the Transvaal, 1889-1899” In: South African Journal of Cultural History, 2017 |
| “Telling telegrams: Another side to Paul Kruger?” In: South African Journal of Cultural History, 2017 |