Hugh Macmillan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hugh Macmillan |
| NOMBRES | Hugh |
| APELLIDO | Macmillan |
| FIRMA | MACMILLAN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Zambia |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3118-6579 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1884 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Response to Andrew Bank and Anjuli Webster
Money Talks, Banks are Talking
This Article provides a Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) finance and divestment campaign retrospective. The Article explains: 1) how DAPL was financed, highlighting the dynamic in which banks take fees for the privilege of financing and refinancing pipeline debt; and 2) how joint venture ownership structures and corporate finance arrangements buffered against efforts to hold DAPL banks accountable. At the same time, many of the same banks finance gu…
Faire parler l'argent quand les banques se paient de mots
En 2016, la fédération de tribus Sioux de Standing Rock et l'alliance citoyenne Lakota, Nakota & Dakota lancent une mobilisation contre un projet d'oléoduc traversant leurs terres. Leur campement attire de nombreuses solidarités et débouche notamment sur un appel au désinvestissement adressé aux fonds, entreprises, banques... impliqué·es dans le financement de l'oléoduc. Et ça marche : de gros investisseurs, inquiets de voir leur image associée à…
Landeg White, 1940-2017
Plus ça change? Mining in South Africa in the last 30 years – an overview
This article examines the history of South African mining over the last 30 years. It notes the declining contribution of mining to the economy, and a drop in employment levels and labour migration. It considers political, legislative and macro-economic changes, as well as mine ownership and control. It addresses the question why a democratically elected government, progressive labour legislation, trade-unionisation and Black Economic Empowerment …
Past History Has Not Been Forgotten
The apparent camaraderie displayed by Presidents Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe, and President Thabo Mbeki’s ‘tilt’ towards Mugabe in electoral controversies in Zimbabwe, have created the impression among many in South Africa that the African National Congress (ANC) and Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) were allies in the struggle against apartheid. The history of the ANC/Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) alliance has been neglected. This…
Debating the Anc's External Links During the Struggle Against Apartheid
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Debating the Anc's External Links During the Struggle Against Apartheid
Several recent publications have explored the African National Congress's (ANC's) external links during South Africa's apartheid years. The following four texts offer an insight into the very different personal and methodological approaches that have so far shaped attempts to understand this aspect of the ANC's struggle. The section starts with a review of Stephen Ellis's recent book External Mission: the ANC in exile, 1960–1990 by Hugh Macmillan…
The University Of Zambia and the Liberation of Southern Africa, 1966-90
This article examines the role of the University of Zambia (UNZA) in relation to the liberation of southern Africa, and seeks to cast light on Zambia's often ambivalent role. A contradiction emerged between the Zambian government's support for liberation abroad and its intolerance of criticism at home. The university came to be seen as a centre of opposition and was often a place of conflict. I seek to answer a number of questions. What was the r…
Mining, housing and welfare in South Africa and Zambia
This contribution seeks to place the relationship between mining, housing and welfare in historical perspective in two Southern African countries with long histories of mining activity that continue to have large mining sectors, namely South Africa and Zambia. Mining capitalists and colonial, as well as apartheid, governments tended to resist urban permanence, but they were usually unable to stop it. Economists and social anthropologists, being l…
The “Great Coloured Question” and the Cosmopolitan
In this article we set out to interrogate Wicomb's David's Story as a political and historical intervention and to examine its treatment of the “great coloured question” and the relationship between armed liberation struggle and democracy. The novel has the potential to be read as a liberal critique of the ANC's treatment of coloured people and of women in exile and in the transition to democracy, but we argue that one can only arrive at such a r…
Zambia, then and now
The African National Congress of South Africa in Zambia
Liberal and other critics of the ANC in government in South Africa frequently refer to the malign influence of ‘exile’ on the culture of the party, citing alleged secrecy, paranoia and lack of internal democracy, as the inevitable consequences of the years spent abroad – but they do this without much knowledge of the real experience of exile. This article focuses on the ANC in Zambia, specifically Lusaka, and seeks to examine the history, geograp…
After Morogoro
This article examines the Zambian dimension in the calling and aftermath of the Morogoro Conference of 1969. After the failure of the Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, Chris Hani and six other members of MK produced a memorandum, which constituted a devastating attack on the ANC’s exile leadership. The authors of the memorandum were expelled and were unable to attend the conference, but their memorandum had a strong influence on its deliberations. T…
An African Trading Empire
Kinship and partnership united Elie and Harry Susman when they crossed the Zambezi from the south in 1901 and travelled north to buy cattle from King Lewanika in Barotseland. The result was a remarkable family business that has flourished for over a century in some of the most logistically difficult and politically problematic environments in the world. An African Trading Empire is a unique story set against the backdrop of the great themes of Eu…
Zion in Africa
Zion in Africa
This is an account of the Jewish community in central Africa, telling the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late-19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia who flourished in the face of both anti-Semitism and their own acute social dislocation, the author explores a number of interrelated topics: th…
From race to ethnic identity
The Life and Art of Stephen Kappata
Stephen Kappata a ete presente depuis ces dernieres annees, en Zambie et au public international, comme un peintre naif. Le style en effet est proche de la peinture naive mais les themes sont subversifs, denoncent les politiques coloniales et, en opposition, soutiennent les luttes sociales. L'A. retrace la vie de ce peintre de Zambie, puis presente son style, son insertion dans l'art populaire (utilisant images, phrases et humour des populations …
More thoughts on the historiography of transition on the Zambian Copperbelt
A debate about the historiography of migrancy and urbanization on the Zambian Copper‐belt has recently been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, commencing with a two‐part article by James Ferguson (Vols 16, 3 and 16, 4). This was followed by a response from Hugh Macmillan in Vol. 19, 4, and another paper by Ferguson in Vol. 20, 4. This reply by Macmillan argues that there is no definitive version of the historiography and that t…
Return to the Malungwana Drift-Max Gluckman, the Zulu Nation and the Common Society
Journal Article RETURN TO THE MALUNGWANA DRIFT-MAX GLUCKMAN, THE ZULU NATION AND THE COMMON SOCIETY Get access HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN The author teaches in the Department of History, University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 39-65, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098801 Published: 01 January 1995
Obituary
Administrators, anthropologists and 'traditionalists' in colonial Swaziland
This article seeks to explain why social anthropologists working in southern Africa in the 1930s were so ill equipped to distinguish between real and invented traditions or old and revived customs. The core of the article is a contemporary account of the history of an aspect of custom. The custom in question relates to the control within the age grade or regimental system of the age at marriage of men in Swazi society. The article examines the mo…
An Economist's Testimony
Journal Article An Economist's Testimony: The autobiography of S. Herbert Frankel Get access An Economist's Testimony: The autobiography of S. Herbert Frankel, by S. H. Frankel. The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1992. Distributed by Butonia (London). 354 pp. £25. ISBN 0 950 4961. HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Vol…
The historiography of transition on the Zambian copperbelt - another view
Zambia has long been recognised as one of the most urbanised countries in Africa. The major theme in the social scientific study of the country since the development of the Copperbelt in the late 1920s has been the relationship between the towns and the rural areas. This has been the subject of academic and political debate for over 60 years and has stimulated a number of important works by economists, social anthropologists, political scientists…
Swaziland
Anyconsideration of the process of decolonisation must be primarily concerned with the question of to whom power was transferred. Who inherited the colonial state and how did they establish their claim? The basic thesis of this article is that in order to understand the nature of the post-colonial state in Swaziland it is necessary to look back at least as far as the 1930s, and to trace the roots of Swazi 'traditionalism', the ideology which triu…
The historiography of transition on the Zambian copperbelt - another view
Zambia has long been recognised as one of the most urbanised countries in Africa. The major theme in the social scientific study of the country since the development of the Copperbelt in the late 1920s has been the relationship between the towns and the rural areas. This has been the subject of academic and political debate for over 60 years and has stimulated a number of important works by economists, social anthropologists, political scientists…
Return to the Malungwana Drift-Max Gluckman, the Zulu Nation and the Common Society
Journal Article RETURN TO THE MALUNGWANA DRIFT-MAX GLUCKMAN, THE ZULU NATION AND THE COMMON SOCIETY Get access HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN The author teaches in the Department of History, University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 39-65, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098801 Published: 01 January 1995
More thoughts on the historiography of transition on the Zambian Copperbelt
A debate about the historiography of migrancy and urbanization on the Zambian Copper‐belt has recently been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, commencing with a two‐part article by James Ferguson (Vols 16, 3 and 16, 4). This was followed by a response from Hugh Macmillan in Vol. 19, 4, and another paper by Ferguson in Vol. 20, 4. This reply by Macmillan argues that there is no definitive version of the historiography and that t…
Administrators, anthropologists and 'traditionalists' in colonial Swaziland
This article seeks to explain why social anthropologists working in southern Africa in the 1930s were so ill equipped to distinguish between real and invented traditions or old and revived customs. The core of the article is a contemporary account of the history of an aspect of custom. The custom in question relates to the control within the age grade or regimental system of the age at marriage of men in Swazi society. The article examines the mo…
The African National Congress of South Africa in Zambia
Liberal and other critics of the ANC in government in South Africa frequently refer to the malign influence of ‘exile’ on the culture of the party, citing alleged secrecy, paranoia and lack of internal democracy, as the inevitable consequences of the years spent abroad – but they do this without much knowledge of the real experience of exile. This article focuses on the ANC in Zambia, specifically Lusaka, and seeks to examine the history, geograp…
Plus ça change? Mining in South Africa in the last 30 years – an overview
This article examines the history of South African mining over the last 30 years. It notes the declining contribution of mining to the economy, and a drop in employment levels and labour migration. It considers political, legislative and macro-economic changes, as well as mine ownership and control. It addresses the question why a democratically elected government, progressive labour legislation, trade-unionisation and Black Economic Empowerment …
Past History Has Not Been Forgotten
The apparent camaraderie displayed by Presidents Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe, and President Thabo Mbeki’s ‘tilt’ towards Mugabe in electoral controversies in Zimbabwe, have created the impression among many in South Africa that the African National Congress (ANC) and Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) were allies in the struggle against apartheid. The history of the ANC/Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) alliance has been neglected. This…
Money Talks, Banks are Talking
This Article provides a Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) finance and divestment campaign retrospective. The Article explains: 1) how DAPL was financed, highlighting the dynamic in which banks take fees for the privilege of financing and refinancing pipeline debt; and 2) how joint venture ownership structures and corporate finance arrangements buffered against efforts to hold DAPL banks accountable. At the same time, many of the same banks finance gu…
Faire parler l'argent quand les banques se paient de mots
En 2016, la fédération de tribus Sioux de Standing Rock et l'alliance citoyenne Lakota, Nakota & Dakota lancent une mobilisation contre un projet d'oléoduc traversant leurs terres. Leur campement attire de nombreuses solidarités et débouche notamment sur un appel au désinvestissement adressé aux fonds, entreprises, banques... impliqué·es dans le financement de l'oléoduc. Et ça marche : de gros investisseurs, inquiets de voir leur image associée à…
An African Trading Empire
Kinship and partnership united Elie and Harry Susman when they crossed the Zambezi from the south in 1901 and travelled north to buy cattle from King Lewanika in Barotseland. The result was a remarkable family business that has flourished for over a century in some of the most logistically difficult and politically problematic environments in the world. An African Trading Empire is a unique story set against the backdrop of the great themes of Eu…
From race to ethnic identity
"Economists, apartheid and "the common society
This paper deals with the emergence in the 1970s of the idea of “the common society” in response to segregationism, and to an awareness of South Africa's essential poverty. It considers the ways in which economists have either contributed to, or impeded, the development of this idea. The paper documents the construction by 1930 of a ‘radical liberal’ economic blue‐print for a non racial South Africa, but also demonstrates the failure of economist…
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Notice of Cup-Marked Stones near Aberfeldy
Notice of Cup-Marked Stones near Aberfeldy
Notice of two Boulders having Rain-filled Cavities on the Shores of Loch Tay, formerly associated with the Cure of Disease
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN St Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIV, Issue CCCLXXIII, October 1979, Pages 942–943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIV.CCCLXXIII.942 Published: 01 October 1979
Books reviewed
J. H. P. Serfontein, Brotherhood of Power: An Expose of the Secret Afrikaner Broederbond (London, Rex Collings, 1978) Ivor Wilkins and Hans Strydom, The Super Afrikaners: Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond (Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1978) Mozambique: Proceedings of a Seminar held in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1st and 2nd December, 1978 (Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1979. p…
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXX, July 1981, Page 675, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXX.675 Published: 01 July 1981
Books reviewed
J. B. Peires, The House of Phalo (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981 and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. x+281; J. B. Peires (ed.), Before and After Shaka: Papers in Nguni History (Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1981), pp. vi+267. Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: 1 New Babylon, 2 New Nineveh (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Lond…
Swaziland
Anyconsideration of the process of decolonisation must be primarily concerned with the question of to whom power was transferred. Who inherited the colonial state and how did they establish their claim? The basic thesis of this article is that in order to understand the nature of the post-colonial state in Swaziland it is necessary to look back at least as far as the 1930s, and to trace the roots of Swazi 'traditionalism', the ideology which triu…
Books reviewed
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775–1…
Books reviewed
Leroy Vail (ed.), The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (James Currey: London and University of California Press: Berkeley, 1989) xiv + 422pp, £12.95/£30.00. Claude Meillasoux (ed.), Verrouillage ethnique en Afrique du Sud (UNESCO: Paris, 1988) 118pp, pbk, no price indicated. Gerhard Maré and Georgina Hamilton, An Appetite for Power; Buthelezi's Inkatha and South Africa (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1987). Mzala, Gatsha Buthelezi…
Books reviewed
Albie Sachs, Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990) vii + 208pp, £5.99 pbk. Mike Robertson, ed., Human Rights for South Africans (Oxford University Press: Cape Town, 1990), x + 254pp., £7.95 pbk. Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davis, Jr. Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: The Struggle against Apartheid 1948–1990. A Documentary Survey (Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991),…
"Economists, apartheid and "the common society
This paper deals with the emergence in the 1970s of the idea of “the common society” in response to segregationism, and to an awareness of South Africa's essential poverty. It considers the ways in which economists have either contributed to, or impeded, the development of this idea. The paper documents the construction by 1930 of a ‘radical liberal’ economic blue‐print for a non racial South Africa, but also demonstrates the failure of economist…
An Economist's Testimony
Journal Article An Economist's Testimony: The autobiography of S. Herbert Frankel Get access An Economist's Testimony: The autobiography of S. Herbert Frankel, by S. H. Frankel. The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1992. Distributed by Butonia (London). 354 pp. £25. ISBN 0 950 4961. HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Vol…
The historiography of transition on the Zambian copperbelt - another view
Zambia has long been recognised as one of the most urbanised countries in Africa. The major theme in the social scientific study of the country since the development of the Copperbelt in the late 1920s has been the relationship between the towns and the rural areas. This has been the subject of academic and political debate for over 60 years and has stimulated a number of important works by economists, social anthropologists, political scientists…
Return to the Malungwana Drift-Max Gluckman, the Zulu Nation and the Common Society
Journal Article RETURN TO THE MALUNGWANA DRIFT-MAX GLUCKMAN, THE ZULU NATION AND THE COMMON SOCIETY Get access HUGH MACMILLAN HUGH MACMILLAN The author teaches in the Department of History, University of Zambia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 39-65, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098801 Published: 01 January 1995
Obituary
Administrators, anthropologists and 'traditionalists' in colonial Swaziland
This article seeks to explain why social anthropologists working in southern Africa in the 1930s were so ill equipped to distinguish between real and invented traditions or old and revived customs. The core of the article is a contemporary account of the history of an aspect of custom. The custom in question relates to the control within the age grade or regimental system of the age at marriage of men in Swazi society. The article examines the mo…
More thoughts on the historiography of transition on the Zambian Copperbelt
A debate about the historiography of migrancy and urbanization on the Zambian Copper‐belt has recently been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, commencing with a two‐part article by James Ferguson (Vols 16, 3 and 16, 4). This was followed by a response from Hugh Macmillan in Vol. 19, 4, and another paper by Ferguson in Vol. 20, 4. This reply by Macmillan argues that there is no definitive version of the historiography and that t…
The Life and Art of Stephen Kappata
Stephen Kappata a ete presente depuis ces dernieres annees, en Zambie et au public international, comme un peintre naif. Le style en effet est proche de la peinture naive mais les themes sont subversifs, denoncent les politiques coloniales et, en opposition, soutiennent les luttes sociales. L'A. retrace la vie de ce peintre de Zambie, puis presente son style, son insertion dans l'art populaire (utilisant images, phrases et humour des populations …
Zion in Africa
This is an account of the Jewish community in central Africa, telling the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late-19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia who flourished in the face of both anti-Semitism and their own acute social dislocation, the author explores a number of interrelated topics: th…
From race to ethnic identity
Zion in Africa
An African Trading Empire
Kinship and partnership united Elie and Harry Susman when they crossed the Zambezi from the south in 1901 and travelled north to buy cattle from King Lewanika in Barotseland. The result was a remarkable family business that has flourished for over a century in some of the most logistically difficult and politically problematic environments in the world. An African Trading Empire is a unique story set against the backdrop of the great themes of Eu…
The African National Congress of South Africa in Zambia
Liberal and other critics of the ANC in government in South Africa frequently refer to the malign influence of ‘exile’ on the culture of the party, citing alleged secrecy, paranoia and lack of internal democracy, as the inevitable consequences of the years spent abroad – but they do this without much knowledge of the real experience of exile. This article focuses on the ANC in Zambia, specifically Lusaka, and seeks to examine the history, geograp…
After Morogoro
This article examines the Zambian dimension in the calling and aftermath of the Morogoro Conference of 1969. After the failure of the Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns, Chris Hani and six other members of MK produced a memorandum, which constituted a devastating attack on the ANC’s exile leadership. The authors of the memorandum were expelled and were unable to attend the conference, but their memorandum had a strong influence on its deliberations. T…
Zambia, then and now
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