Bibliography for the History and Philosophy of Science

Submitted 10 years 11 months ago by Keith Breckenridge.

Useful surveys

Dubow, Saul. A Commonwealth of Knowledge : Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa, 1820-2000. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

———. Ilicit Union: Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.

———. Science and Society in Southern Africa. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press,, 2009.

Etherington, Norman. The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854. London: Longman, 2001.

Flint, W. (William) ed, J. D. F. (John Dow Fisher) Gilchrist, and South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Science in South Africa: a Handbook and Review. Prepared Under the Auspices of the South African Governments and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Cape Town, Pretoria and Bulawayo, T. M. Miller, 1905. http://archive.org/details/cu31924012226761.

Giliomee, Hermann Buhr. The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Hamilton, Carolyn, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross, eds. The Cambridge History of South Africa. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

The fraught ground of collaboration

Guy, Jeff. “Class, Imperialism and Literary Criticism: William Ngidi, John Colenso and Matthew Arnold.” Journal of Southern African Studies 23, no. 2 (1997): 219–241.

———. The Heretic: A Study of the Life of John William Colenso. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983.

Mafeje, A. “The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective: An Inquiry into the Growth of the Social Sciences.” Canadian Journal of African Studies (1976): 307–333.

Mokoena, Hlonipha. Magema Fuze : the Making of a Kholwa Intellectual. Scottsville South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.

Wilson, M. H., and A. Mafeje. Langa: A Study of Social Groups in an African Township. Oxford University Press, 1963.

Agriculture and Conservation

Beinart, William. The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Beinart, William, Karen Brown, and Daniel Gilfoyle. “Experts and Expertise in Colonial Africa Reconsidered: Science and the Interpenetration of Knowledge.” African Affairs 108, no. 432 (January 7, 2009): 413–433. doi:10.1093/afraf/adp037.

Beinart, William, and Peter Coates. Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa. Routledge, 2002.

Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press Oxford, 2007.

Bowman, Andrew. “Ecology to Technocracy: Scientists, Surveys and Power in the Agricultural Development of Late-Colonial Zambia.” Journal of Southern African Studies 37, no. 1 (2011): 135–153. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.554210.

Brown, Karen, Andrew Ainslie, and William Beinart. “Animal Disease and the Limits of Local Knowledge: Dealing with Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in South Africa.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, no. 2 (2013): 319–337. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12035.

Musselman, Elizabeth Green. “Plant Knowledge at the Cape: A Study in African and European Collaboration.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 36, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 367–392. doi:10.2307/3559388.

Robin, Libby, and Jane Carruthers. “Introduction: Environmental History and the History of Biology.” Journal of the History of Biology 44, no. 1 (February 1, 2011): 1–14. doi:10.1007/s10739-010-9242-8.

Sittert, Lance van. “Holding the Line: The Rural Enclosure Movement in the Cape Colony, c. 1865-1910.” The Journal of African History 43, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 95–118. doi:10.2307/4100428.

Van Sittert, Lance. “‘The Seed Blows About in Every Breeze’: Noxious Weed Eradication in the Cape Colony, 1860-1909.” Journal of Southern African Studies 26, no. 4 (2000): 655–674. doi:10.1080/713683604.

Van Sittert, Lance. “The Supernatural State: Water Divining and the Cape Underground Water Rush, 1891-1910.” Journal of Social History 37, no. 4 (2004): 915–937. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0067.

Anthropology

Bank, Andrew. “Anthropology and Portrait Photography: Gustav Fritsch’s ‘Natives of South Africa’, 1863-1872.” Kronos no. 27 (November 1, 2001): 43–76.

———. Bushmen in a Victorian World: The Remarkable Story of the Bleek-Lloyd Collection of Bushman Folklore. Double Storey Books, 2006. http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cNdLCETNRh8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&....

BANK, ANDREW. “Evolution and Racial Theory: The Hidden Side of Wilhelm Bleek.” South African Historical Journal 43, no. 1 (2000): 163–178. doi:10.1080/02582470008671911.

Bank, Andrew. “Of ‘native Skulls’ and ‘noble Caucasians’: Phrenology in Colonial South Africa.” Journal of Southern African Studies 22, no. 3 (1996): 387–403.

Mafeje, A. “The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective: An Inquiry into the Growth of the Social Sciences.” Canadian Journal of African Studies (1976): 307–333.

Steinmetz, G. The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Mining Engineering and Geology

Denny, G. A. (George Alfred). The Deep-level Mines of the Rand and Their Future Development, Considered from the Commercial Point of View. London, C. Lockwood and Son, 1902. http://archive.org/details/deeplevelminesr03denngoog.

Hatch, Frederick Henry [from old catalog, and J. A. Chalmers. The Gold Mines of the Rand; London and New York [Edinburgh printed] Macmillan and co., 1895. http://archive.org/details/goldminesrandbe01chalgoog.

Leger Jean-Patrick. “Talking Rocks: An Investigation of the Pit Sense of Rockfall Accidents Amongst Underground Gold Miners.” University of Witwatersrand, 1992.

Ransome, Stafford. The Engineer in South Africa: A Review of the Industrial Situation in South Africa after the War and Forecast of the Possibilities of the Country. London: Archibald Constable, 1903. \home\breckenr\pdfs\3657541889Binder1.pdf.

South Africa. Report Of The Witwatersrand Rock Burst Committee, 1924. Cape Town: Cape Times Ltd., Government Printers, 1925.