Philip Bonner
Biographic Data
| ID | 81726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Bonner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonner |
| SIGNATURE | BONNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Headman, the Regent and the 'Long Walk to Freedom
This posthumously published article was completed by Philip Bonner (d.2017) in 2010 as a longer paper commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. To our knowledge, it has not been published, and we have edited it, with permission, into a suitable form for a journal article. This has involved shortening, reducing some of the extended historiographical discussion and cutting some of the informal writing. Bonner was initially asked to investigate…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
History and the here and now
This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One featur…
The Cambridge History of South Africa
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear a…
Keynote Address to the 'Life after Thirty' Colloquium
Over thirty years ago – two years before the launching of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) History Workshop (HW) – Ronald Grele wrote, in an essay titled, ‘Can anyone over thirty be trust
Entries
Introduction: Labour Crossings in Eastern and Southern Africa
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African precedents and prospects
A Search for Origins: Science, history and South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'
Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African Labour History in International Context
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
Migration, Urbanization and Urban Social Movements in Twentieth Century India and South Africa
This article compares patterns of urbanization and the forms assumed by urban social movements in twentieth-century India and South Africa. It highlights the prevalence and persistence of single male labour migration to and from the major industrial centres in both countries and seeks to identify their respective compulsions. It emphasises the importance of the white settler political project of segregation in South Africa in shaping patterns of …
The Great Migration' and 'The Greatest Trek: Some Reflections
This article compares and contrasts paths, patterns and experiences of migration undertaken by blacks from the southern United States moving to northern cities, and by Africans from the South African countryside moving to the Witwatersrand. It suggests marked parallels between the migration of black share‐croppers from the American South in its latter stages and in the aftermath of the First World War and the migration of African labour tenants f…
The Politics of Location and Relocation: Germiston 1942-1960
Apartheid's Genesis, 1935-1962
When are they going to fight? - Tsotsis, youth politics and the pac, Clive Glaser First win the war, then clear the slums - the genesis of the western areas removal scheme, 1940-1949, Deon van Tonder Verwoerd versus the Visionaries - the South Africa Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA) and apartheid, 1948-1961 John Lazar A destruction coming - Bantu education as a response to social crisis, John Hyslop African political organizations in Brakpan in t…
Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration
New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977-1994
Journal Article New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977–1994 Get access Philip Bonner Philip Bonner chairperson of the History Workshop University of the Witwaterstand, Johannesburg, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 977–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081437 Published: 01 December 1994
Company town, company estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910-1932
This study of Pilgrim's Rest seeks to fill an historiographical gap by exploring labour relations on the periphery of the gold mining industry. The experience of Pilgrim's Rest presents a distinctive South African wrinkle to the international phenomenon of companies’ trying to order and control the lives of their employees outside of work. The dominant gold‐mining company in the eastern Transvaal, Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, faced intense comp…
The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944-1952
Research Article| May 01 1990 The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944–1952 Philip Bonner Philip Bonner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 89–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Bonner; The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1…
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of inequality through marriage and inheritance patterns, and the simultaneous integration of age regiments and the elaboration of a nat…
Factions and Fissions: Transvaal/Swazi Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The writing of South African history has yet to catch up with many of the historiographical advances made north of the Limpopo. This is especially obvious in the tendency to view white and black states confronting one another in the pre-conquest era as irreconcilably hostile monolithic blocks. This essay attempts to examine the reality of that interaction by focusing on the eastern Transvaal republics and the Swazi in the mid-nineteenth century. …
Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African Labour History in International Context
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977-1994
Journal Article New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977–1994 Get access Philip Bonner Philip Bonner chairperson of the History Workshop University of the Witwaterstand, Johannesburg, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 977–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081437 Published: 01 December 1994
Keynote Address to the 'Life after Thirty' Colloquium
Over thirty years ago – two years before the launching of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) History Workshop (HW) – Ronald Grele wrote, in an essay titled, ‘Can anyone over thirty be trust
The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944-1952
Research Article| May 01 1990 The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944–1952 Philip Bonner Philip Bonner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 89–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Bonner; The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1…
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
Migration, Urbanization and Urban Social Movements in Twentieth Century India and South Africa
This article compares patterns of urbanization and the forms assumed by urban social movements in twentieth-century India and South Africa. It highlights the prevalence and persistence of single male labour migration to and from the major industrial centres in both countries and seeks to identify their respective compulsions. It emphasises the importance of the white settler political project of segregation in South Africa in shaping patterns of …
Factions and Fissions: Transvaal/Swazi Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The writing of South African history has yet to catch up with many of the historiographical advances made north of the Limpopo. This is especially obvious in the tendency to view white and black states confronting one another in the pre-conquest era as irreconcilably hostile monolithic blocks. This essay attempts to examine the reality of that interaction by focusing on the eastern Transvaal republics and the Swazi in the mid-nineteenth century. …
Introduction: Labour Crossings in Eastern and Southern Africa
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
The Great Migration' and 'The Greatest Trek: Some Reflections
This article compares and contrasts paths, patterns and experiences of migration undertaken by blacks from the southern United States moving to northern cities, and by Africans from the South African countryside moving to the Witwatersrand. It suggests marked parallels between the migration of black share‐croppers from the American South in its latter stages and in the aftermath of the First World War and the migration of African labour tenants f…
Company town, company estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910-1932
This study of Pilgrim's Rest seeks to fill an historiographical gap by exploring labour relations on the periphery of the gold mining industry. The experience of Pilgrim's Rest presents a distinctive South African wrinkle to the international phenomenon of companies’ trying to order and control the lives of their employees outside of work. The dominant gold‐mining company in the eastern Transvaal, Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, faced intense comp…
The Headman, the Regent and the 'Long Walk to Freedom
This posthumously published article was completed by Philip Bonner (d.2017) in 2010 as a longer paper commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. To our knowledge, it has not been published, and we have edited it, with permission, into a suitable form for a journal article. This has involved shortening, reducing some of the extended historiographical discussion and cutting some of the informal writing. Bonner was initially asked to investigate…
History and the here and now
This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One featur…
Factions and Fissions: Transvaal/Swazi Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The writing of South African history has yet to catch up with many of the historiographical advances made north of the Limpopo. This is especially obvious in the tendency to view white and black states confronting one another in the pre-conquest era as irreconcilably hostile monolithic blocks. This essay attempts to examine the reality of that interaction by focusing on the eastern Transvaal republics and the Swazi in the mid-nineteenth century. …
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of inequality through marriage and inheritance patterns, and the simultaneous integration of age regiments and the elaboration of a nat…
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State
The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944-1952
Research Article| May 01 1990 The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1944–1952 Philip Bonner Philip Bonner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 89–115. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1990-46-47-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Bonner; The Politics of Black Squatter Moverments on the Rand, 1…
Company town, company estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910-1932
This study of Pilgrim's Rest seeks to fill an historiographical gap by exploring labour relations on the periphery of the gold mining industry. The experience of Pilgrim's Rest presents a distinctive South African wrinkle to the international phenomenon of companies’ trying to order and control the lives of their employees outside of work. The dominant gold‐mining company in the eastern Transvaal, Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, faced intense comp…
New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977-1994
Journal Article New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977–1994 Get access Philip Bonner Philip Bonner chairperson of the History Workshop University of the Witwaterstand, Johannesburg, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 977–985, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081437 Published: 01 December 1994
Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration
Apartheid's Genesis, 1935-1962
When are they going to fight? - Tsotsis, youth politics and the pac, Clive Glaser First win the war, then clear the slums - the genesis of the western areas removal scheme, 1940-1949, Deon van Tonder Verwoerd versus the Visionaries - the South Africa Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA) and apartheid, 1948-1961 John Lazar A destruction coming - Bantu education as a response to social crisis, John Hyslop African political organizations in Brakpan in t…
The Politics of Location and Relocation: Germiston 1942-1960
Migration, Urbanization and Urban Social Movements in Twentieth Century India and South Africa
This article compares patterns of urbanization and the forms assumed by urban social movements in twentieth-century India and South Africa. It highlights the prevalence and persistence of single male labour migration to and from the major industrial centres in both countries and seeks to identify their respective compulsions. It emphasises the importance of the white settler political project of segregation in South Africa in shaping patterns of …
The Great Migration' and 'The Greatest Trek: Some Reflections
This article compares and contrasts paths, patterns and experiences of migration undertaken by blacks from the southern United States moving to northern cities, and by Africans from the South African countryside moving to the Witwatersrand. It suggests marked parallels between the migration of black share‐croppers from the American South in its latter stages and in the aftermath of the First World War and the migration of African labour tenants f…
A Search for Origins: Science, history and South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'
Rethinking Worlds of Labour: Southern African Labour History in International Context
South African historians and social scientists have often bemoaned 'South African exceptionalism': in other words a tendency to
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African precedents and prospects
Entries
Introduction: Labour Crossings in Eastern and Southern Africa
This special focus presents a selection of four papers presented to an international conference on ‘Labour Crossings: World, Work, Society’, organised by the History Workshop, University of the Wit
Keynote Address to the 'Life after Thirty' Colloquium
Over thirty years ago – two years before the launching of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) History Workshop (HW) – Ronald Grele wrote, in an essay titled, ‘Can anyone over thirty be trust
The Cambridge History of South Africa
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear a…
History and the here and now
This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One featur…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
The Headman, the Regent and the 'Long Walk to Freedom
This posthumously published article was completed by Philip Bonner (d.2017) in 2010 as a longer paper commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. To our knowledge, it has not been published, and we have edited it, with permission, into a suitable form for a journal article. This has involved shortening, reducing some of the extended historiographical discussion and cutting some of the informal writing. Bonner was initially asked to investigate…
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