Since the appearance of Peter Novick‘s influential study on American historical writing,’ historians have been driven back to consider the nature of their craft, but more significantly, also to take stock of recent ...

Pacifism in the field of international relations had deep roots in nonconformist thinking in Britain which, paradoxically enough, embraced at the same time a militancy in its approach to religious convictions. It is perhaps ...

During the nineteenth century, southern Africa was one of the most active missionary fields in the world, and the London Missionary Society (LMS) had come to assume a leading role in the shaping of religious attitudes ...

After the three long years of the South African War's centenary, which ended in 2002, it is hard to think of anything more to say about the conflict. Even Herman Charles Bosman and the war came in for some literary ...

In the 1830s the slaves made up a significant proportion of the population of Cape Town and were closely integrated into the community in terms of occupation, residence, and personal relationships. They constituted about ...