Book Review

AFRICA A History of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1903-1953: The Detroit of the Union. By GARY F. BAINES. Lewiston, N.Y., Queenston, Ontario and Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. xvi + 408 pp. ISBN 0 7734 6957 5. Social History and African Environments. Edited by WILLIAM BEINART and JOANN McGREGOR. Oxford: James Currey, 2003. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 0 85255 950 X. Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. By FRAN BUNTMAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 340 pp. ISBN 0 521 53768 1. South Africa and the Communist International: A Documentary History. Edited by A. DAVIDSON, I. FILATOVA, V. GORODNOV and S. JOHNS. Volume 1: Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930; Volume 2: Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939. London: Frank Cass, 2003. lxi + 304pp. ISBN 0 7146 5280 6 and 0 7146 5281 4. The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 379 pp. ISBN 0 521 82453 (hardback); 0 521 53769 X (African edition). Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History. By NANCY JACOBS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 336 pp. ISBN 0 52153 457 7. Our Generation. By ZUBEIDA JAFFER. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2003. 164 pp. ISBN 0 7957 0148 9. The History of Education under Apartheid 1948-1994: ‘The Doors of Learning and Culture shall be Opened’. Edited by PETER KALLAWAY. Cape Town: Pearson Education South Africa, 2002. v + 399 pp. ISBN 1 86891 192 6. Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987. By NORMA J. KRIGER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx + 293 pp. ISBN 0 521 53770 3. South Africa, Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? By ALAN LESTER, ETIENNE NEL and TONY BANKS. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.374 pp. ISBN 0 58235 626 1. Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa. By ZINE MAGUBANE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 222 pp. ISBN 0 266 50177 9. Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa. By JOHN MASON. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiii + 334 pp. ISBN 0 8139 2178 3. Environmental Justice in South Africa. Edited by DAVID A. McDONALD. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2002. xii + 341 pp. ISBN 1 919713 66 2. Hendrik Cloete, Groot Constantia and the VOC 1778-1799. Edited and introduced by G.J. SCHUTTE. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No. 34, 2003. xv + 336 pp. ISBN 0 958 45221 0. Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. By GIDEON SHIMONI. Cape Town: David Philip and Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press ofNew England, 2003. xv + 337 pp. ISBN 0 86486 620 8. Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945. By MARION WALLACE. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing for Basel Namibia Studies Series, 2002. xvii + 312 pp. ISBN 3 908193 11 7. The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe. By LUISE WHITE. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2003. xiii + 139 pp. ISBN 1 919930 28 0. Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia and seine Folgen. Edited by JÜRGEN ZIMMERER and JOACHIM ZELLER. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2003. 276 pp. ISBN 3 86153 303 0. OTHER Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945. By PEDER ANKER. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2001. vii + 343 pp. ISBN 0 674 00595 3. Captain Hogan: Sailor, Merchant, Diplomat on Six Continents. By MICHAEL H. STYLES. Fairfax Station, Va: Six Continent Horizons, 2003. 434 pp. ISBN 0 9744347 0 1.