Alan Cobley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139712 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Cobley |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Cobley |
| FIRMA | COBLEY A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2693-6029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Powering Apartheid
1960 was a pivotal year in the history of apartheid and of South Africa. However, the first great crisis of that year – the Coalbrook Mine Disaster – has been largely forgotten. At least 435 miners died when a large section of the mine collapsed on 21 January 1960. The Coalbrook Disaster can be attributed in large measure to the rise of the racist, capitalist apartheid state in South Africa after 1948. As the first major crisis of 1960 in South A…
That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the “Black Atlantic,” and Afro-Caribbean Identity
Lacking in Respect for Whitemen”
In May 1903, 380 Africans were recruited from British Central Africa (modern Malawi) by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association on one-year contracts to work in the gold mines. It was an experiment designed to test the potential for recruiting cheap black labor for the mines from the region north of the Zambesi. By the end of the contract period, more than a quarter of the men were either dead or permanently disabled. Their struggles to adapt…
The other Zulus
This book is about the “Zuluisation” of Natal Africans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is an effort to bridge a gap Mahoney identifies in the historiography between discu
Why Not All Go Up Higher?’
The Transvaal Native Mine Clerks’ Association was a seminal organisation in the early history of black struggle in South Africa. Formed in the midst of the social, economic and political crisis on the Rand following the First World War, its early membership included many who would go on to become key figures in black politics and society in the inter-war years. Yet, the history of the Association is little known. This article discusses the circum…
That Turbulent Soil
Black West Indian Seamen in the British Merchant Marine in the Mid nineteenth Century
Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas
Stronger, Surer, Bolder
Dame Nita Barrow was a lifelong champion of justice, community service and human rights. This volume examines how this extraordinary Caribbean woman developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and development policy on regional, national and international levels
Does Social History have a Future? The Ending of Apartheid and Recent Trends in South African Historiography
During the 1970s and 1980s a rich seam of revisionist scholarship emerged in South African historiography out of a radical critique of pre-existing discourses. The article traces the emergence of these new approaches with particular reference to the contribution made by Shula Marks. It goes on to consider the challenge faced by this radical historiography in light of the disintegration of the apartheid state, the transition to majority rule and t…
The Politics of Transition
Historical Dictionary of South Africa
The Rules of the Game
Whose Game? Whose Rules? African Sport and the Struggle for Urban Space The Politics of Reading: Literacy, Consciousness and the Development of Library Services for Blacks in South Africa Maids and Mesdames: Contested Objectives in Social Welfare Provision for African Women Kill the Weekend: Social Drinking, Drunkenness, and Temperance Among the African Middle Class A Proper Attitude of Mind: Socialization, Subordination, and the Rise of the Soci…
Clothing and Difference
Forgotten connections, unconsidered parallels
Readings in African Popular Culture
views of the field oral tradition revisited socialhistory, social criticism and interpretation women in popular culture little genres of everyday life the local and the global
A political history of playing fields
(1994). A political history of playing fields: the provision of sporting facilities for Africans in the Johannesburg area to 1948. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 212-230
Liquor and Leadership
(1994). Liquor and Leadership: Temperance, Drunkenness and the African Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 128-148
An African American in South Africa
Journal Article An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 Get access An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938, edited by Robert R. Edgar. Ohio University Press, Athens, and Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1992. xvi+398 pp. £34.00 hardback. ISBN 0 8214 1021 0. ALAN COBLEY ALAN COBLEY University of the West …
Far from home
An Afro‐Caribbean presence in South Africa in the early twentieth century has long been recognised. This paper traces the origins of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa, which are to be found predominantly among economic migrants such as seafarers. It then considers the nature of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa and discusses its impact on black political consciousness and organisation, both before and after the First World W…
Class and Consciousness
Class and Consciousness
The 'African National Church
The first generations of black Christians in Southern Africa went through a painful process of critical examination and experiment as they struggled to assimilate new economic, social, and religious values. These values were presented to them mainly by white missionaries and were based largely on European models. It was as part of this dialectical process that an independent black churches movement-quickly labeled by friends and foes the "Ethiopi…
Class and Consciousness
This is the first book to discuss the emergence and nature of the black bourgeoisie in South Africa in its historical context as a class in itself and for itself. It reveals how, by the 1920s, the black petty bourgeoisie was emerging in South Africa through the process of capitalist development, out of pre-existing elites and out of new elites based mainly in the new industrial centers. The book then discusses how the black petty bourgeoise deplo…
Books reviewed
Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan (eds) War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa (David Philip: Cape Town & Johannesburg), 361 + xiv pp., R28.80 (pbk), 1989, 0 86486 115 X Sheikh R. Ali, Southern Africa: An American Enigma (Praeger: New York, Westport and London, 1987), 199pp., plus appendices) Lynette Dreyer The Modern African Elite of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1989), xii + 186pp. Peter F. Alexander, William Plomer. A Biography (O…
Does Social History have a Future? The Ending of Apartheid and Recent Trends in South African Historiography
During the 1970s and 1980s a rich seam of revisionist scholarship emerged in South African historiography out of a radical critique of pre-existing discourses. The article traces the emergence of these new approaches with particular reference to the contribution made by Shula Marks. It goes on to consider the challenge faced by this radical historiography in light of the disintegration of the apartheid state, the transition to majority rule and t…
A political history of playing fields
(1994). A political history of playing fields: the provision of sporting facilities for Africans in the Johannesburg area to 1948. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 212-230
Liquor and Leadership
(1994). Liquor and Leadership: Temperance, Drunkenness and the African Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 128-148
Far from home
An Afro‐Caribbean presence in South Africa in the early twentieth century has long been recognised. This paper traces the origins of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa, which are to be found predominantly among economic migrants such as seafarers. It then considers the nature of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa and discusses its impact on black political consciousness and organisation, both before and after the First World W…
Black West Indian Seamen in the British Merchant Marine in the Mid nineteenth Century
Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas
Forgotten connections, unconsidered parallels
Class and Consciousness
This is the first book to discuss the emergence and nature of the black bourgeoisie in South Africa in its historical context as a class in itself and for itself. It reveals how, by the 1920s, the black petty bourgeoisie was emerging in South Africa through the process of capitalist development, out of pre-existing elites and out of new elites based mainly in the new industrial centers. The book then discusses how the black petty bourgeoise deplo…
Books reviewed
Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan (eds) War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa (David Philip: Cape Town & Johannesburg), 361 + xiv pp., R28.80 (pbk), 1989, 0 86486 115 X Sheikh R. Ali, Southern Africa: An American Enigma (Praeger: New York, Westport and London, 1987), 199pp., plus appendices) Lynette Dreyer The Modern African Elite of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1989), xii + 186pp. Peter F. Alexander, William Plomer. A Biography (O…
Class and Consciousness
The 'African National Church
The first generations of black Christians in Southern Africa went through a painful process of critical examination and experiment as they struggled to assimilate new economic, social, and religious values. These values were presented to them mainly by white missionaries and were based largely on European models. It was as part of this dialectical process that an independent black churches movement-quickly labeled by friends and foes the "Ethiopi…
Far from home
An Afro‐Caribbean presence in South Africa in the early twentieth century has long been recognised. This paper traces the origins of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa, which are to be found predominantly among economic migrants such as seafarers. It then considers the nature of the Afro‐Caribbean community in South Africa and discusses its impact on black political consciousness and organisation, both before and after the First World W…
Class and Consciousness
An African American in South Africa
Journal Article An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 Get access An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938, edited by Robert R. Edgar. Ohio University Press, Athens, and Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1992. xvi+398 pp. £34.00 hardback. ISBN 0 8214 1021 0. ALAN COBLEY ALAN COBLEY University of the West …
A political history of playing fields
(1994). A political history of playing fields: the provision of sporting facilities for Africans in the Johannesburg area to 1948. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 212-230
Liquor and Leadership
(1994). Liquor and Leadership: Temperance, Drunkenness and the African Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 128-148
Readings in African Popular Culture
views of the field oral tradition revisited socialhistory, social criticism and interpretation women in popular culture little genres of everyday life the local and the global
The Rules of the Game
Whose Game? Whose Rules? African Sport and the Struggle for Urban Space The Politics of Reading: Literacy, Consciousness and the Development of Library Services for Blacks in South Africa Maids and Mesdames: Contested Objectives in Social Welfare Provision for African Women Kill the Weekend: Social Drinking, Drunkenness, and Temperance Among the African Middle Class A Proper Attitude of Mind: Socialization, Subordination, and the Rise of the Soci…
Clothing and Difference
Forgotten connections, unconsidered parallels
Stronger, Surer, Bolder
Dame Nita Barrow was a lifelong champion of justice, community service and human rights. This volume examines how this extraordinary Caribbean woman developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and development policy on regional, national and international levels
Does Social History have a Future? The Ending of Apartheid and Recent Trends in South African Historiography
During the 1970s and 1980s a rich seam of revisionist scholarship emerged in South African historiography out of a radical critique of pre-existing discourses. The article traces the emergence of these new approaches with particular reference to the contribution made by Shula Marks. It goes on to consider the challenge faced by this radical historiography in light of the disintegration of the apartheid state, the transition to majority rule and t…
The Politics of Transition
Historical Dictionary of South Africa
Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas
Black West Indian Seamen in the British Merchant Marine in the Mid nineteenth Century
That Turbulent Soil
Why Not All Go Up Higher?’
The Transvaal Native Mine Clerks’ Association was a seminal organisation in the early history of black struggle in South Africa. Formed in the midst of the social, economic and political crisis on the Rand following the First World War, its early membership included many who would go on to become key figures in black politics and society in the inter-war years. Yet, the history of the Association is little known. This article discusses the circum…
The other Zulus
This book is about the “Zuluisation” of Natal Africans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is an effort to bridge a gap Mahoney identifies in the historiography between discu
Lacking in Respect for Whitemen”
In May 1903, 380 Africans were recruited from British Central Africa (modern Malawi) by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association on one-year contracts to work in the gold mines. It was an experiment designed to test the potential for recruiting cheap black labor for the mines from the region north of the Zambesi. By the end of the contract period, more than a quarter of the men were either dead or permanently disabled. Their struggles to adapt…
That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the “Black Atlantic,” and Afro-Caribbean Identity
Powering Apartheid
1960 was a pivotal year in the history of apartheid and of South Africa. However, the first great crisis of that year – the Coalbrook Mine Disaster – has been largely forgotten. At least 435 miners died when a large section of the mine collapsed on 21 January 1960. The Coalbrook Disaster can be attributed in large measure to the rise of the racist, capitalist apartheid state in South Africa after 1948. As the first major crisis of 1960 in South A…
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