Recent trends in South African water historiography

The discipline of water history is relatively young but since the 1990s there has been growing interest in the field. In this article an exposition is provided on the origins of the discipline of water history as a subdivision of environmental history. The discussion then turns to an outline of recent developments in the historiography of water history in South Africa. Attention is also given to the possibility of extending the study of this discipline into a number of allied fields

Archaeology · Art · Environmental ethics · Historiography · Literature · Social science · Sociology · Subdivision · African studies and sociopolitical issues · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · South African History and Culture · Water Governance and Infrastructure

• Landscape of Conquest

  Leonard Guelke, Robert Shell•Agriculture, Resource Exploitation,…•2021

  Incluir item

• The Lesotho highlands corruption trial

  Open Access•Sarah Bracking•Review of African Political Economy•2001

  Incluir item

• Historians, Historical Analysis, and International Water Politics

  Martin Reuss•The Public Historian•2004

  Incluir item

• The Will of Abraham and Elizabeth September

  Open Access•Martin Legassick•The Journal of African History•1996

  Incluir item

• Environment, Power, and Injustice

  Elizabeth Green Musselman, N J Jacobs•The International Journal of…•2003

  Incluir item

• Disciplining a 'Dissident' City

  Open Access•Muchaparara Musemwa•Journal of Southern African Studies•2006

  Incluir item

• Landscape of conquest

  Leonard Guelke, Robert Shell•Journal of Southern African Studies•1992

  Incluir item

• Hydropolitics, Ecocide and Human Security in Lesotho

  Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Oscar Mwangi•Journal of Southern African Studies•2007

  Incluir item

• South Africa's Racial past

  Sean Redding, Paul Maylam et al.•South Africa's Racial Past•2017

  Incluir item

• Cadillac Desert

  Donald Worster, Marc Reisner•Western Historical Quarterly•1987

  Incluir item

• The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa's hardest working water way

  Open Access•Johann Tempelhoff, Victor Munik et al.•The Journal for Transdisciplinary…•2007

  Incluir item

• Water and the human culture of appropriation

  Open Access•Johann Tempelhoff, Johann W N Tempelhoff•The Journal for Transdisciplinary…•2006

  Incluir item

• Some human actions in the destruction and construction of culture and nature - the Merafong region as a case study

  Open Access•Elize S Van Eeden, Van Eeden•The Journal for Transdisciplinary…•2006

  Incluir item

• A short comparative history of wells and toilets in South Africa and Finland

  Open Access•Johannes Haarhoff, Petri Juuti et al.•The Journal for Transdisciplinary…•2006

  Incluir item