Peter Limb
Biographic Data
| ID | 101311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Limb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Limb |
| SIGNATURE | LIMB P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4345-7911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The constitution, the people and the reinvention of a royal autocracy: A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960-1982
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 To the Present by William Beinart and Saul Dubow
This excellent interdisciplinary history by distinguished historians of rural (Beinart) and intellectual (Dubow) South Africa covers most branches of science throughout the last three centuries. Early chapters trace the rise of modern science among eighteenth-century Cape Enlightenment travelers to the emergence of scientific governance rooted in colonial institutions, and then to technological innovation in mining and agriculture. Later chapters…
Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
The onset and maintenance of apartheid involved the taming of white labor unions and the convincing of members that their interests lay with rigid segregation and protection of their jobs. When black resistance and globalizing economic pressures eroded the alliance of dominant white social strata, neither the racial state nor capitalism had use for such social engineering. Historically, only black workers undertook laboring, and as they increasin…
Sol T. Plaatje: A Life in Letters
In this digital age it can be imagined that the good primary sources are already online, but this is not always the case. All the more important then that widely scattered, important sources contin
Radical teachers and Trotskyists in Cape Town
The story of the New Era Fellowship (NEF), a Capetonian debating/cultural society founded in 1937 with pronounced Trotskyist inspiration, which gave birth to the more widely known Unity Movement, h
Cyril Ramaphosa: The Path to Presidential Power
Anthony Butler has augmented his earlier editions (2007, 2013) of this seminal, readable biography, adding 130 pages more on Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa’s years as Jacob Zuma’s deputy from 2014 and hi
Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics, Satire, and Culture
An African Newspaper in Central Johannesburg: The Journalistic and Associational Context of Abantu-Batho
National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps
This “historical ethnography” of dissent and authoritarianism in Namibian exile camps run by swapo (South West African People’s Organisation) across Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1980s and its contemporary implications, combines anthropology with history and exile, human rights, and refugee studies. Williams’ deft meshing of disciplines works, but given that his chief sources are interviews and that he acquired little information from the doc…
Hooks down! Anti-apartheid activism and solidarity among maritime unions in Australia and the United States
Our research compares and contrasts the transnational activism of maritime unions in Australia and the United States in what became the first and longest example of global solidarity in the post-World War II era – the anti-apartheid movement. Dockworkers, with a deep history of solidarity, occupied a strategic position to exert real influence on the South African state by refusing to unload South African cargo. We analyze the actions of the Water…
Southern African Liberation Struggles 1960–1994: Contemporaneous Documents
The Hashim Mbita Project’s Southern African Liberation Struggles 1960–1994, finally published, is, states the publisher, ‘the most comprehensive historical record of the liberation struggles in sou
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850-1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal
This innovative monograph examines the impact of colonial reorganization of land and space driven by cadastral (property) surveys in South Africa. Attempts at spatial engineering by surveyors provo
Swaziland: The struggle for political freedom and democracy
Repression by the anti-democratic, corrupt monarchy and resultant popular resistance continues to mark a Swaziland political scene deeply impacted by a closely related socio-economic crisis. From t
The Empire Writes Back: African Challenges to the Brutish (South African) Empire in the Early 20th Century
This paper examines African critical views on empires in the early 20th century. Historians regard modern African challenges to empire and the settler state in South(ern) Africa as a post-Second World War phenomenon; before then, entrenched empire loyalism among black elites held sway. I argue that while loyalism remained influential, black intellectuals and political leaders, from the earliest articulation of African nationalism, began to critiq…
Islamic Africa: A Select, Annotated Webography
In this brief essay and webography, I indicate ways to pursue the themes of Islamic Africa on the Web. Digital and online libraries about Islam and West Africa, and more broadly about the history and culture of predominantly Islamic parts of Africa, have been steadily growing in the last few years. To assist readers of Islamic Africa to appreciate the span of these rapidly expanding resources and their depth and usefulness, and hopefully to make …
Overview of the 24th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27–29 June 2013
This was truly a landmark conference not just because it was the first time the Southern African Historical Society (SAHS) met outside the borders of South Africa, but also because of the rich and
Some Early Roots of the Global Antiapartheid Movement
Peter Limb reviews Robert Trent Vinson's The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
The Global Antiapartheid Movement
This article surveys collections and archives of antiapartheid movements across the globe, covering organizations and activists, and not only print but also image, sound, and film materials. Particular attention is given to archives with a global span. The countries covered have a global sweep across five continents and include archives in South Africa, the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, and Australasia…
The law and the prophets: Black consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977
Daniel Magaziner has written a fine survey of the religious dimensions of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) of South Africa over a nine-year period. The book comprises three parts, on intellec
The People’s Paper: A centenary history and anthology of Abantu-Batho
The Future is in the Hands of the Workers’: A history of Fosatu
Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
Mandela, Nelson
Interview with Bob Edgar
Dr. Robert Edgar is Professor of African Studies at Howard University. He has written primarily on twentieth-century Southern African political and religious history. He is currently collaborating
Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography , by Hans M. Zell
Reviewed by: Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography Peter Limb Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. Hans M. ZellLochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell P, 2008. 1712 pp. ISBN 978-0-9541029-05-1 cloth. Just when we thought (on the basis of trends showing publishers giving up on the genre) that bibliography was dead, along comes Hans Zell with this wonderfully sculpted guide to …
Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War, 1899-1902
Swaziland: The struggle for political freedom and democracy
Repression by the anti-democratic, corrupt monarchy and resultant popular resistance continues to mark a Swaziland political scene deeply impacted by a closely related socio-economic crisis. From t
Sol Plaatje Reconsidered: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Class, Nation, Gender, and Empire 1
2003). Sol Plaatje Reconsidered: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Class, Nation, Gender, and Empire 1. African Studies: Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 33-52
The Digitization of Africa
Globalization and technological change are driving new developments in electronic publishing and learning—developments that are dominating the transmission of educational information. African studies in the North are harnessing these developments to enhance the study of Africa. While control of, and profits from, these trends largely bypass there is growing evidence of successful African digital ventures. A new scramble for Africa, for informatio…
Rethinking sol plaatje's attitudes to class, empire, and gender
Sol Plaatje lived by the written word. He was a teacher ... a messenger ... a court interpreter ... journalist, a founder of newspapers.... He was the first black South African novelist ... Plaatje lived and died at the crucial intersection of South Africa's history, where a cowardly imperial government created an overtly racist constitution, and handed the reins of power to the forces of reaction and oppression. He experienced dispossession. He …
Companions to African Literature
Rethinking sol plaatje's attitudes to class, empire, and gender
Sol Plaatje lived by the written word. He was a teacher ... a messenger ... a court interpreter ... journalist, a founder of newspapers.... He was the first black South African novelist ... Plaatje lived and died at the crucial intersection of South Africa's history, where a cowardly imperial government created an overtly racist constitution, and handed the reins of power to the forces of reaction and oppression. He experienced dispossession. He …
Restless Identities: Signatures of Nationalism, Zulu Ethnicity and History in the Lives of Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and Lymon Moling (1889-c. 1936)
Sol Plaatje Reconsidered: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Class, Nation, Gender, and Empire 1
2003). Sol Plaatje Reconsidered: Rethinking Plaatje's Attitudes to Class, Nation, Gender, and Empire 1. African Studies: Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 33-52
No People Can Be Expected to Be Loyal under Such Difficulties: Ambiguities and Identities of Early African National Congress Leaders in South Africa
This paper examines the identities of early leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) at a time when British influences still prevailed in South Africa. African attitudes to the “British World” reveal complex identities that also reflected political and cultural variations according to race, class and region. Relations between ANC leaders and the African “elite” and between the elite and subaltern strata were not straightforward. A careful r…
Digital Dilemmas and Solutions
The impact of a globalising information economy Libraries, digitisation and change Changing strategies: winning the information game Applying digital technologies User perspectives Managing change Resolving ethical and legal dilemmas and problems
Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War, 1899-1902
African Studies Bibliography: A State-of-the-Art Review
African studies bibliography:a state-of-the-art review Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer Old Problems Regular readers of Africa Bibliography may recall that, in an article for the 2001 volume, bookseller Paul Wilson mused that the personal libraries of renowned Africanists Basil Davidson, and Roland Oliver and Suzanne Miers, really should go back to Africa notwithstanding the lack of secure repositories and funds, a way of accomplishing this for…
The Digitization of Africa
Globalization and technological change are driving new developments in electronic publishing and learning—developments that are dominating the transmission of educational information. African studies in the North are harnessing these developments to enhance the study of Africa. While control of, and profits from, these trends largely bypass there is growing evidence of successful African digital ventures. A new scramble for Africa, for informatio…
«Camp» and African Newspaper Microfilm Preservation and Digitisation
Nelson Mandela: A Biography
Everyone should know the life story of Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of all time, the first black president of South Africa, the most famous African, and a major world statesman. His inspiring life receives a fresh retelling in this new biography written especially for students and general readers. This volume is an enjoyable, authoritative, and balanced way to not only understand a great man, but also to understand a critical time …
Nelson Mandela: A biography
Examines the life and accomplishments of the first black South African president, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs
Interview with Bob Edgar
Dr. Robert Edgar is Professor of African Studies at Howard University. He has written primarily on twentieth-century Southern African political and religious history. He is currently collaborating
Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography , by Hans M. Zell
Reviewed by: Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography Peter Limb Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. Hans M. ZellLochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell P, 2008. 1712 pp. ISBN 978-0-9541029-05-1 cloth. Just when we thought (on the basis of trends showing publishers giving up on the genre) that bibliography was dead, along comes Hans Zell with this wonderfully sculpted guide to …
Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
Mandela, Nelson
The People’s Paper: A centenary history and anthology of Abantu-Batho
The Future is in the Hands of the Workers’: A history of Fosatu
The law and the prophets: Black consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977
Daniel Magaziner has written a fine survey of the religious dimensions of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) of South Africa over a nine-year period. The book comprises three parts, on intellec
Islamic Africa: A Select, Annotated Webography
In this brief essay and webography, I indicate ways to pursue the themes of Islamic Africa on the Web. Digital and online libraries about Islam and West Africa, and more broadly about the history and culture of predominantly Islamic parts of Africa, have been steadily growing in the last few years. To assist readers of Islamic Africa to appreciate the span of these rapidly expanding resources and their depth and usefulness, and hopefully to make …
Overview of the 24th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Botswana, Gaborone, 27–29 June 2013
This was truly a landmark conference not just because it was the first time the Southern African Historical Society (SAHS) met outside the borders of South Africa, but also because of the rich and
Some Early Roots of the Global Antiapartheid Movement
Peter Limb reviews Robert Trent Vinson's The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
The Global Antiapartheid Movement
This article surveys collections and archives of antiapartheid movements across the globe, covering organizations and activists, and not only print but also image, sound, and film materials. Particular attention is given to archives with a global span. The countries covered have a global sweep across five continents and include archives in South Africa, the United States, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, and Australasia…
Swaziland: The struggle for political freedom and democracy
Repression by the anti-democratic, corrupt monarchy and resultant popular resistance continues to mark a Swaziland political scene deeply impacted by a closely related socio-economic crisis. From t
The Empire Writes Back: African Challenges to the Brutish (South African) Empire in the Early 20th Century
This paper examines African critical views on empires in the early 20th century. Historians regard modern African challenges to empire and the settler state in South(ern) Africa as a post-Second World War phenomenon; before then, entrenched empire loyalism among black elites held sway. I argue that while loyalism remained influential, black intellectuals and political leaders, from the earliest articulation of African nationalism, began to critiq…
Political science (26 works) · History (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (19 works) · South African History and Culture (16 works) · African history and culture studies (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · History (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works)