Book Reviews

Book reviews I’ve written are free to read using the links below:

James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Thula Simpson (ed.), History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography (Manchester University Press, 2023)

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985 (Oxford University Press, 2023)

David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt (eds.), Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (HSRC Press, 2023)

Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds.), Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s (Liverpool University Press, 2021)

Benjamin Rubbers et al., Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts (James Currey, 2021)

Patience Mususa, There Used to Be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mine (University of Michigan Press, 2022)

Jean P. Smith, Settlers at the end of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the United Kingdom (Manchester Unviersity Press, 2022)

Alfred Tembo, War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953 (Ohio University Press, 2021)

Nicola Ginsburgh, Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919-79 (Manchester University Press, 2020)

Stefano Belluci and Andreas Eckert, General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20^th and 21^st Centuries (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)

Juliette Bridgette Milner Thornton, The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)