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The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol. I. The Oxford History of South Africa is a two volume history of South Africa published by Clarendon Press in 1969 (Vol. I) and 1971 (Vol. II). The publication of the work marked a watershed in the historiography of South Africa by for the first time giving indigenous Africans a central role in the ...
The book traces the struggle for abortion rights from the 1960s to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It stresses the intersection of class and race in women's access to safe abortion services, emphasizes the lingering challenges, [1] highlights the lack of a widespread feminist movement during this period and closely examines the impact of a 1972 case involving a medical abortionist named ...
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586. [ 2 ]
Oxford University Press opened a South African office in 1915 to distribute its books in the region. The first South African university press was established in 1922 at Witwatersrand University. Several other South African universities established presses during the 20th century and, as of 2015, four were actively publishing. [11]
The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950 (Pbk. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954122-5. William Beinart; Luvuyo Wotshela (2011). Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. ISBN 978-1-86814-530-0.
Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian, former principal [1] of Green Templeton College, Oxford and former SOAS University of London director. [2] Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised our understanding of South African history.
'Publishing Wole Soyinka: Oxford University Press and the creation of "Africa's own William Shakespeare" Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (4) (2012) pp. 344–358 ISSN 1744-9855. 'Histories of publishing under apartheid: Oxford University Press in South Africa' Journal of Southern African Studies 37 (1) (2011) pp. 79–98 ISSN 0305-7070 ...
Born in England in 1916, Thompson was educated in both England and South Africa, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1937 to 1939. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and was awarded many medals for distinguished service.