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Vol. 1: Social identities in the new South Africa. / Ed. by Abebe Zegeye. - 360 S. : zahlr. Lit. - ISBN 0-7957-0133-0.; Vol. 2: Culture in the new South Africa. / Ed. by Robert Kriger ... - 334 S. : Ill., zahlr. Lit. - ISBN 0-7957-0134-9

While discussions of the military are notably absent in academic African History, it doesn't mean that the subject is absent from the history left by the Africans. Sources that have been used for generations contain extensive discussions of the organization, arming, training, and utilization of military forces in Africa by Africans, but these aspects of the sources are largely ignored or interpreted within the frame of other violent activity, such as slave raiding. However, simply by their existence, these sources offer future generations the opportunity to expand and finally tell the story of formal military activity in Africa. This in turn will allow for the creation of a more complete record of African political, social, and even state-building activity before the advent of European colonization.

Veit Arlt, Stephanie Bishop, and Pascal Schmid: Preface - S. 7. - Eric Morier-Genoud: The Making of a Transnational Historian: Patrick Harries in Lausanne - S. 11. - Pascal Schmid: From Swiss Imperialism to Postcolonial Switzerland - S. 15. - Dag Henrichsen: Hildagonda Duckitt's (and Patrick Harries') Contribution to Namibian History - S. 21. - Rita Kesselring: Cultural Reproduction and Memory: Past, Present and Future - S. 23. - Jürg Schneider: Photography and the Demise of Anthropology - S. 29. - Gregor Dobler: Staying for Gold or Joining the Rebellion? South West African Migrant Workers on the Rand During War and Genocide, 1904-1905 - S. 35. - Cassandra Mark-Thiesen: From Mining Pit to Missionary Bungalow: Trading Spaces in the Writing Patrick Harries - S. 41. - Ulrike Sill: Of Wives, Slaves and Commerce, or: The Price of Things - S. 45. - Paul Jenkins: Notes on the Basel Mission's Production of Knowledge in the Kannada Language in Nineteenth Century South India - S. 51. - Tanja Hammel: Of Birds and (Wo)Men - S. 61. - Patrick Grogan: German Natural History Collectors and the Appropriation of Human Skulls and Skeletons in Early Nineteenth Century Southern Africa: Towards a Discursive Analysis of Collecting - S. 65. - Melanie Eva Boehi: Who Cut Down Margaret Thatcher's Tree? - S. 71. - Franziska Rüedi: 'Reluctant Bonds': On the Role of Narrative in Post-Apartheid South Africa - S. 75. - Veit Arlt: South African Jazz: The Basel Connection - S. 79. - Stephanie Bishop: The Game Plan for a Successful Career - S. 89

The atlas explores historical developments in Africa's past. Included in the geographical account of events are the rise and decline of states and empires, trade routes and voyages, travelers and explorers, slave trade in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, the spread of Christianity and Islam, the growth of cities, war and resistance movements. There are also maps of the brief colonial period, and the liberation of modern states and their mode of government

Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts