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Bill Freund
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781776146758 |
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The first biography of an eminent historian of South Africa Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often described as the academy’s ‘outsider insider’, he was an eminent South African historian who published prodigiously in the areas of labour, capital and economic history. What influenced this American-educated academic to become such an astute and trusted observer of the political economy in Africa? We follow Bill’s intellectual journey from a modest Jewish home in Chicago in the 1950s to the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and finally to a permanent teaching position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Peppered in between the commentaries on academic life are stories of his travels, poems he wrote for loved ones, and endearing anecdotes of friendships that shaped his life. As an ‘outsider’, both in the United States and abroad, he is able to offer rich insights into the world of Africanists and their scholarship on different continents. His thoughtful and balanced observations on late- and post-apartheid South Africa are especially interesting and refreshing. This posthumously published autobiography will give deeper insight into this unusual man and the world that shaped him – and which he in turn influenced through a deep commitment to rigorous scholarship. It includes a select bibliography of Bill Freund’s many publications as well as a foreword by Robert Morrell on the making of this autobiography.
The African City
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139459556 |
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This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
Twentieth Century South Africa
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108427401 |
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This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.
Bill Freund
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Wits University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2021-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781776146727 |
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The first biography of an eminent historian of South Africa Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often described as the academy’s ‘outsider insider’, he was an eminent South African historian who published prodigiously in the areas of labour, capital and economic history. What influenced this American-educated academic to become such an astute and trusted observer of the political economy in Africa? We follow Bill’s intellectual journey from a modest Jewish home in Chicago in the 1950s to the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and finally to a permanent teaching position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Peppered in between the commentaries on academic life are stories of his travels, poems he wrote for loved ones, and endearing anecdotes of friendships that shaped his life. As an ‘outsider’, both in the United States and abroad, he is able to offer rich insights into the world of Africanists and their scholarship on different continents. His thoughtful and balanced observations on late- and post-apartheid South Africa are especially interesting and refreshing. This posthumously published autobiography will give deeper insight into this unusual man and the world that shaped him – and which he in turn influenced through a deep commitment to rigorous scholarship. It includes a select bibliography of Bill Freund’s many publications as well as a foreword by Robert Morrell on the making of this autobiography.
The African Worker
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1988-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521307589 |
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The African Worker, first published in 1988, was intended as a synthesis considering issues and debates from the work of many writers on labour history and labour studies in Africa. The development of a particular critical literature, spanning a number of disciplines, is critically considered. In some respects, the concerns of past generations have been to align the understanding of labour issues in Africa with those more generally in the modern world. In others, the emphasis remains on the specific and African. Both directions clearly emerge here. The bibliographical essay, as well as the bibliography itself, is meant to point readers further who want a higher order of detail, a regional focus or a more thorough-going theoretical treatment of all or some of the relevant issues.
Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105037410193 |
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Development Dilemmas in Post apartheid South Africa
Author | : Bill Freund,Harald Witt |
Publsiher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 186914189X |
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What is really meant by 'development' in 21st-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this book address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas - from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability, and environmental justice, to grassroots social movements, problems of policy implementation, land and agricultural reform, and gender inequality. Written by leading academics and activists, this book is an essential and illuminating in-depth study of the dilemmas facing post-apartheid South Africa, and the historical, political, economic, and social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there is no easy way to attain development - it is a process, not an event, and is fraught with failures and loss, as well as gains.
Apartheid Israel
Author | : Sean Jacobs,Jon Soske |
Publsiher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781608465194 |
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In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.