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Nancy Jacobs
Professor of HIstory, Brown University
Research Expertise
Environmental History
History of Animals
African History
Publications
Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South
African History. By Nancy Jacobs.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003. 300 pages
Social Dynamics
2006
Nancy J. Jacobs, Birders of Africa:
history of a network. New Haven CT: Yale
University Press (hb US$60 – 978 0 300
20961 7). 2016, xiii + 325 pp.
Africa
2019
The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre:
Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of
Class and Grass
The American Historical Review
2001
The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in
Colonial Africa
Comparative Studies in Society and
History
2006
The Flowing Eye: Water Management in the
Upper Kuruman Valley, South
Africa,c.1800–1962
The Journal of African History
1996
Biography in post-apartheid South Africa:
A call for awkwardness
African Studies
2019
NEW VOICES FOR TEACHING THE AFRICAN PAST -
African History Through Sources: Colonial
Contexts and Everyday Experiences,
c. 1850–1946, Volume 1. By Nancy J.
Jacobs . Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 328. $85, hardback
(ISBN 9781107030893); $27.99, paperback
(ISBN 9781107679252).
The Journal of African History
2016
Grasslands and Thickets: Bush Encroachment
and Herding in the Kalahari Thornveld
Environment and History
2000
Introduction
Africa, UK, and Ireland
2018
The history of exchange controls in South
Africa
South African Journal of Economic
History
2002
Environment, Production and Social
Difference in the Kalahari Thornveld,
c1750-1830
Journal of Southern African
Studies
1999
Reflection: Conviviality and
Companionship: Parrots and People in the
African Forests
Environmental History
2021
Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern
African Histories
Environment, Power, and Justice:
Southern African Histories
, edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers
and Nancy J. Jacobs, Athens, Ohio, Ohio
University Press, 2022, xii + 354 pp.
Canadian Journal of African Studies /
Revue canadienne des études
africaines
2023
Collaborative Research, Participatory
Solutions: Research on Asbestos in
Kuruman, South Africa
International Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Health
2004
How Washington Okumu Became the Mediator
Who Saved the 1994 South African Elections
South African Historical Journal
2021
The awkward biography of the young
Washington Okumu: CIA asset (?) and the
Prayer Breakfast’s man in Africa
African Studies
2019
Eco-Cultural Networks and the British
Empire: New Views on Environmental
History. Edited by James Beattie, Edward
Melillo, and Emily O’Gorman. New York:
Bloomsbury, 2015. 344 pp. Illustrations,
maps, graphs, notes, and index. Cloth
$120.00.
Environmental History
2016
American Evangelicals and African
Politics: The Archives of the Fellowship
Foundation, 1960s–1987
History in Africa
2018
Herding birds, interspecific
communication, and translations
Critical African Studies
2015
Books
Environmental History
2005
Latitudes and Longitudes: Comparative
Perspectives on Cape Environmental History
(2004)
Rethinking South Africa’s Past
2025
Reaching Out from Lockdown: A Writing
Group for Young Black South Africans
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
2024
Retrospectives on Socio-Environmental
History and Socio-Environmental Justice
The New Imperial Histories Reader
2020
The Secret of Jewish Masculinity:
Love, Marriage, and Jewish
Families
2015
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An
Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990
The International Journal of African
Historical Studies
2000
Freedom in Our Lifetime: The Collected
Writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
The International Journal of African
Historical Studies
1998
Black Consciousness after Biko: The
Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa,
1977–1987
Biko Lives!
2008
Review:
Winged Worlds: Common Spaces of
Avian-Human Lives, edited by Olga Petri and Michael Guida
Animal History
2024
Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni
Buthelezi, and Helen Ludlow, eds. Archives
of Times Past: Conversations about South
Africa’s Deep History. Johannesburg: Wits
University Press, 2022. xvii + 341 pp.
Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography.
Index. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9781776147274.
African Studies Review
2024
Rebecca J. H. Woods. The Herds Shot Round
the World: Native Breeds and the British
Empire, 1800–1900.
The American Historical Review
2019
Marc Epprecht. Welcome to Greater
Edendale: Histories of Environment,
Health, and Gender in an African City.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2016. xii + 342 pp. Maps. Illustrations.
Notes. Bibliography. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN:
978-0-7735-4772-5. $34.95. Paper. ISBN:
978-0-7735-4772-2.
African Studies Review
2019
Stout Research Centre, Victoria University
of Wellington
The Grants Register 2019
2018
Jamie Miller. An African Volk: The
Apartheid Regime and Its Search for
Survival.
The American Historical Review
2018
Pioneers of the Field: South Africa’s
women anthropologists
Transactions of the Royal Society of
South Africa
2017
Stuart A. Marks. Life as a Hunt:
Thresholds of Identity and Illusions on an
African Landscape. New York: Berghahn
Books, 2016. xi + 504 pp. Maps. List of
Figures and Tables. Preface and
Acknowledgments. Abbreviations and
Glossary. Afterword. References. Index.
$150.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78533-157-2.
African Studies Review
2017
The Land Beneath Our Feet. Directed
by Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman. Alchemy
Films, 2016. 60 minutes.
Environmental History
2017
Women, Migration & the Cashew
Economy in Southern Mozambique
1945–1975.
By Jeanne Marie Penvenne (Woodbridge,
U.K., James Currey, 2015) 281 pp. $80.00
The Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
2016
LANDSCAPE, WHITE POLITICS, AND ANGLOPHONE
NATIONAL IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICA - Washed
with the Sun: Landscape and the Making of
White South Africa. By Jeremy Foster.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+336. £53.50/$65,
hardback (ISBN 978-0-822-94332-7); £24.95;
$27.95, paperback (ISBN
978-0-822-95958-8).
The Journal of African History
2010
Butterflies and barbarians: Swiss
missionaries and systems of knowledge in
South‐East Africa – By Patrick Harries
Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute
2010
Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental
Relations in the Making of the Transkei
(review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial
History
2010
TREES, SOCIAL POWER, AND ECOSYSTEMS -
African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics
and Social Change. Edited by Michael J.
Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru. Oxford: James
Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press;
Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2008. Pp. x+230.
£45 (isbn 978-1-84701-401-6
James Currey); £16.95 paperback
(isbn 978-1-84701-400-9 James
Currey); R160, paperback
(isbn 978-1-86888-494-0 UNISA);
$59.95 (isbn 10-0-8214-1788-6
Ohio University Press); $26.95 paperback
(isbn 10-0-8214-1789-4 Ohio
University Press).
The Journal of African History
2008
Canis familiaris: A dog history of
Southern Africa
Canis Africanis
2008
Trust in tourism?
Tourism in the New South Africa
2004
The Rise of Conservation in South
Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the
Environment, 1770–1950.
By William Beinart. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. iii + 425 pp. Maps,
illustrations, tables. $165.00
Environmental History
2005
Emmanuel Krieke. Re-creating Eden: Land
Use, Environment, and Society in Southern
Angola and Northern Namibia. Portsmouth,
N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. xi + 293 pp. Maps.
Bibliography. Index. $99.94. Cloth.
$29.95. Paper.
African Studies Review
2005
Redressing School Inequalities in the
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Journal of Southern African
Studies
2004
Wildlife and Warfare: The Life of James
Stevenson-Hamilton
The International Journal of African
Historical Studies
2002
Cutting the Vines of the Past:
Environmental Histories of the Central
African Rain Forest Tamara Giles-Vernick
The Public Historian
2004
Social History & African Environments
Africa: Journal of the International
African Institute
2004
The Politics of Evil: Magic, State
Power, and the Political Imagination in
South Africa. By Clifton Crais (New York, Cambridge
University Press, 2002) 297 pp. $60.00
The Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
2004
Science and Society in Southern Africa
African Studies Review
2002
Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An
Eco-social History of the Anlo of
Southeastern Ghana c. 1850 to Recent
Times.
By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Athens,
Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001. xii +
244 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. Cloth
$44.95. Paper $22.95
Environmental History
2002
Review Articles
Journal of Southern African
Studies
2001
Book Reviews : Paul B. Rich, State Power
and Black Politics in South Africa,
1912-1951 (London: Macmillan Press; New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), ix, 248
pp. Cloth $59.95
Journal of Asian and African
Studies
1997
Making Race: The Politics and Economics of
Coloured Identity in South Africa
The International Journal of African
Historical Studies
1989
IVORY AND POACHING IN AFRICA - Ivory:
Power and Poaching in Africa. By Keith
Somerville. London: Hurst & Company,
2016. Pp. xx + 390. $29.95, hardback (ISBN
9781849046763).
The Journal of African History
2018
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