Jeremy Krikler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1036479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Krikler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Krikler |
| SIGNATURE | KRIKLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rural Masters and Urban Militants in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
White farmers in South Africa, a landowning class that subordinated black tenants and workers, also participated in the suppression of white workers’ movements before and after the First World War. This article explores how class interest limited and then overrode the farmers’ expected ethnic and political solidarities. It focuses especially on the contradictory ways in which farmers related to the great mineworkers’ strike and rebellion of 1922.…
The Micro-History of a South African Murder
This article explores a murder that took place on a Transvaal farm in the early 20th century. By subjecting it to the techniques of micro-history, it demonstrates that the killing, far from having merely a narrow personal or criminal significance, casts a powerful if lurid light on important historical processes and phenomena. Central among these are the following: the social power of Boer landowners over an impoverished white tenantry; the intim…
A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade
This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade. This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the Zong atrocity, but it also explains it in terms of the culture and …
Lost Causes of the Rand Revolt
This article takes up some of the key issues raised in response to the author's work on the Rand Revolt of 1922. It begins by interrogating the idea, advanced by a number of scholars, that the employers’ offensive against white labour in that year was linked to a need to provide opportunities for black mineworkers who had recently engaged in an historic strike of their own. The article then moves on to consider aspects of the racial killing by wh…
Constraints upon Popular Racial Killing
Bouts of popular racial or ethnic violence - pogroms or race riots - have invariably drawn historians to focus on their origin, context and brutal results. This focus, however, leads us away from a recurring fact of the phenomenon: despite the fury, hatred, numbers and arms of the attackers, the overwhelming majority of the victimised group survive the ordeal. Might something be gained, then, by focusing an analysis largely on the factors that re…
The Zong and the Lord Chief Justice
This article focuses on the Zong, the infamous slave-ship of the 1780s which saw a mass murder of African slaves upon whom insurance was later claimed. Commencing with reflections on how we might deepen our knowledge of the Zong, it moves on to consider how its events were absorbed into English law. It demonstrates that the Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, intervened in the case to ensure that fundamental precepts of insurance law would not be dist…
The Inner Mechanics of a South African Racial Massacre
This study focuses upon a bout of racial killing that occurred on the South African Witwatersrand during a white miners' strike in 1922. By demonstrating that most of the racial victims of the strikers and their supporters were not African miners, or Africans working with the police to suppress the strike, it argues against any easy explanation of the racial killings in narrow terms of class conflict. A more complex account is then offered, one t…
The commandos
No abstract available.
Women, violence and the Rand revolt of 1922
This article analyses the role of women in the Witwatersrand strike‐cum‐rising of 1922. It demonstrates the dramatic female role in the ‘commando’ movement and in the violence of this time. The way in which women used their sex to protect their men in confrontations with state forces; the violence offered by women to police; their role in disciplining and humiliating strikebreakers — all these are assessed. The analysis reveals that the exigencie…
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
Journal Article Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa: A Case-Study and Reflections Get access Jeremy Krikler Jeremy Krikler Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3 SQ, Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 3, Spring 1995, Pages 491–520, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.3.491 Published: 01 March 199…
Revolution from above, Rebellion from below
This is a study of rural society and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the early twentieth century. Though much has been written about the South African War and `Reconstruction' period, this is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of their impact on the agrarian Transvaal. Jeremy Krikler analyses the `Revolution from Above' unleashed by British imperialism as it wrought changes of immense significance for the coun…
The Agrarian Class Structure of the Post-War Transvaal
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book brings together findings and theorizes them under the rubric ‘Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below’. The Boer War and Reconstruction periods manifestly witnessed the destruction of an existing state order and the creation of a new one in its place. The chapter focuses on the important but secondary role played by the black peasantry in the war against its landowners. It is queried whether the Boer War and the Rec…
Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below
This is a study of rural society and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the early 20th century. Though much has been written about the South African War and the ‘Reconstruction’ period, this is the first analysis of their impact on the agrarian Transvaal. The book analyses the ‘Revolution from Above’ unleashed by British imperialism as it wrought changes of immense significance for the countryside. It explores the relationsh…
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
It is a commonplace that white people in South Africa have frequently manifested phobic responses to their black compatriots. The twentieth century has teemed with taboos, often legislatively sanctioned, which testify to this: there have been restrictions on sexual relations between blacks and whites, upon marriages between them, upon their being residential neighbors, leaming together, sitting together on public transport, using the same ablutio…
Abraham Esau's War
Journal Article Abraham Esau's War: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902 Get access Abraham Esau's War: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902, by Bill Nasson. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 245 pp. £35 hardback. ISBN 0 521 38512 1. JEREMY KRIKLER JEREMY KRIKLER University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 366, January 1993, Pages 136–139, h…
Agrarian class struggle and the South African War
The Transvaal Agrarian class struggle in the South African war, 1899-1902
This article examines aspects of the rural class struggle between Boer landlords and African producers and workers in the Transvaal during the South African War of 1899 ‐1902. Through an analysis of the shifting balance of class forces in the countryside during this period of upheaval, it explores the connections between war and class struggle. It advances argument and evidence for first, the overturning of Boer mastery over Africans and for its …
The Zong and the Lord Chief Justice
This article focuses on the Zong, the infamous slave-ship of the 1780s which saw a mass murder of African slaves upon whom insurance was later claimed. Commencing with reflections on how we might deepen our knowledge of the Zong, it moves on to consider how its events were absorbed into English law. It demonstrates that the Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, intervened in the case to ensure that fundamental precepts of insurance law would not be dist…
A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade
This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade. This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the Zong atrocity, but it also explains it in terms of the culture and …
Agrarian class struggle and the South African War
The Transvaal Agrarian class struggle in the South African war, 1899-1902
This article examines aspects of the rural class struggle between Boer landlords and African producers and workers in the Transvaal during the South African War of 1899 ‐1902. Through an analysis of the shifting balance of class forces in the countryside during this period of upheaval, it explores the connections between war and class struggle. It advances argument and evidence for first, the overturning of Boer mastery over Africans and for its …
Constraints upon Popular Racial Killing
Bouts of popular racial or ethnic violence - pogroms or race riots - have invariably drawn historians to focus on their origin, context and brutal results. This focus, however, leads us away from a recurring fact of the phenomenon: despite the fury, hatred, numbers and arms of the attackers, the overwhelming majority of the victimised group survive the ordeal. Might something be gained, then, by focusing an analysis largely on the factors that re…
The commandos
No abstract available.
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
Journal Article Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa: A Case-Study and Reflections Get access Jeremy Krikler Jeremy Krikler Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3 SQ, Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 3, Spring 1995, Pages 491–520, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.3.491 Published: 01 March 199…
Lost Causes of the Rand Revolt
This article takes up some of the key issues raised in response to the author's work on the Rand Revolt of 1922. It begins by interrogating the idea, advanced by a number of scholars, that the employers’ offensive against white labour in that year was linked to a need to provide opportunities for black mineworkers who had recently engaged in an historic strike of their own. The article then moves on to consider aspects of the racial killing by wh…
Women, violence and the Rand revolt of 1922
This article analyses the role of women in the Witwatersrand strike‐cum‐rising of 1922. It demonstrates the dramatic female role in the ‘commando’ movement and in the violence of this time. The way in which women used their sex to protect their men in confrontations with state forces; the violence offered by women to police; their role in disciplining and humiliating strikebreakers — all these are assessed. The analysis reveals that the exigencie…
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
It is a commonplace that white people in South Africa have frequently manifested phobic responses to their black compatriots. The twentieth century has teemed with taboos, often legislatively sanctioned, which testify to this: there have been restrictions on sexual relations between blacks and whites, upon marriages between them, upon their being residential neighbors, leaming together, sitting together on public transport, using the same ablutio…
The Transvaal Agrarian class struggle in the South African war, 1899-1902
This article examines aspects of the rural class struggle between Boer landlords and African producers and workers in the Transvaal during the South African War of 1899 ‐1902. Through an analysis of the shifting balance of class forces in the countryside during this period of upheaval, it explores the connections between war and class struggle. It advances argument and evidence for first, the overturning of Boer mastery over Africans and for its …
Agrarian class struggle and the South African War
The Agrarian Class Structure of the Post-War Transvaal
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book brings together findings and theorizes them under the rubric ‘Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below’. The Boer War and Reconstruction periods manifestly witnessed the destruction of an existing state order and the creation of a new one in its place. The chapter focuses on the important but secondary role played by the black peasantry in the war against its landowners. It is queried whether the Boer War and the Rec…
Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below
This is a study of rural society and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the early 20th century. Though much has been written about the South African War and the ‘Reconstruction’ period, this is the first analysis of their impact on the agrarian Transvaal. The book analyses the ‘Revolution from Above’ unleashed by British imperialism as it wrought changes of immense significance for the countryside. It explores the relationsh…
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
It is a commonplace that white people in South Africa have frequently manifested phobic responses to their black compatriots. The twentieth century has teemed with taboos, often legislatively sanctioned, which testify to this: there have been restrictions on sexual relations between blacks and whites, upon marriages between them, upon their being residential neighbors, leaming together, sitting together on public transport, using the same ablutio…
Abraham Esau's War
Journal Article Abraham Esau's War: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902 Get access Abraham Esau's War: A black South African war in the Cape, 1899–1902, by Bill Nasson. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 245 pp. £35 hardback. ISBN 0 521 38512 1. JEREMY KRIKLER JEREMY KRIKLER University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 366, January 1993, Pages 136–139, h…
Revolution from above, Rebellion from below
This is a study of rural society and struggle in the Transvaal during the watershed period of the early twentieth century. Though much has been written about the South African War and `Reconstruction' period, this is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of their impact on the agrarian Transvaal. Jeremy Krikler analyses the `Revolution from Above' unleashed by British imperialism as it wrought changes of immense significance for the coun…
Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa
Journal Article Social Neurosis and Hysterical Pre-Cognition in South Africa: A Case-Study and Reflections Get access Jeremy Krikler Jeremy Krikler Department of History, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3 SQ, Great Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 3, Spring 1995, Pages 491–520, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.3.491 Published: 01 March 199…
Women, violence and the Rand revolt of 1922
This article analyses the role of women in the Witwatersrand strike‐cum‐rising of 1922. It demonstrates the dramatic female role in the ‘commando’ movement and in the violence of this time. The way in which women used their sex to protect their men in confrontations with state forces; the violence offered by women to police; their role in disciplining and humiliating strikebreakers — all these are assessed. The analysis reveals that the exigencie…
The Inner Mechanics of a South African Racial Massacre
This study focuses upon a bout of racial killing that occurred on the South African Witwatersrand during a white miners' strike in 1922. By demonstrating that most of the racial victims of the strikers and their supporters were not African miners, or Africans working with the police to suppress the strike, it argues against any easy explanation of the racial killings in narrow terms of class conflict. A more complex account is then offered, one t…
The commandos
No abstract available.
Constraints upon Popular Racial Killing
Bouts of popular racial or ethnic violence - pogroms or race riots - have invariably drawn historians to focus on their origin, context and brutal results. This focus, however, leads us away from a recurring fact of the phenomenon: despite the fury, hatred, numbers and arms of the attackers, the overwhelming majority of the victimised group survive the ordeal. Might something be gained, then, by focusing an analysis largely on the factors that re…
The Zong and the Lord Chief Justice
This article focuses on the Zong, the infamous slave-ship of the 1780s which saw a mass murder of African slaves upon whom insurance was later claimed. Commencing with reflections on how we might deepen our knowledge of the Zong, it moves on to consider how its events were absorbed into English law. It demonstrates that the Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, intervened in the case to ensure that fundamental precepts of insurance law would not be dist…
Lost Causes of the Rand Revolt
This article takes up some of the key issues raised in response to the author's work on the Rand Revolt of 1922. It begins by interrogating the idea, advanced by a number of scholars, that the employers’ offensive against white labour in that year was linked to a need to provide opportunities for black mineworkers who had recently engaged in an historic strike of their own. The article then moves on to consider aspects of the racial killing by wh…
A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade
This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade. This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the Zong atrocity, but it also explains it in terms of the culture and …
Rural Masters and Urban Militants in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
White farmers in South Africa, a landowning class that subordinated black tenants and workers, also participated in the suppression of white workers’ movements before and after the First World War. This article explores how class interest limited and then overrode the farmers’ expected ethnic and political solidarities. It focuses especially on the contradictory ways in which farmers related to the great mineworkers’ strike and rebellion of 1922.…
The Micro-History of a South African Murder
This article explores a murder that took place on a Transvaal farm in the early 20th century. By subjecting it to the techniques of micro-history, it demonstrates that the killing, far from having merely a narrow personal or criminal significance, casts a powerful if lurid light on important historical processes and phenomena. Central among these are the following: the social power of Boer landowners over an impoverished white tenantry; the intim…
History (16 works) · South African History and Culture (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Agrarian society (6 works) · Law (6 works)