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SummaryThis paper explores new ways to write history that engages with the lives of animals. It offers a sample card of how social history can be enriched by focusing on history from an animal perspective – and equally, how the tools provided by social history reveals the historicity of animals. The case study is drawn from South African history and the focus is on horses. The paper firstly proposes that horses changed human history not only on the macro-level, but in the small, intimate arena of the bodily, following Febvre's call for a sensory history. Secondly, this paper explores social history's long-time concern with agency and with understanding socio-cultural experiences from the perspective of those who actually lived them – in this case, from an equine perspective. Thirdly, the paper asks how social history that takes animals seriously might be written and might offer a fresh dimension to our understanding, with examples from the most analysed event in southern African historiography, the South African War (1899–1902).

Abstract  This paper raises questions about the ontology of the Afrikaner leadership in the 1914 Boer Rebellion – and the tendency to portray the rebel leadership in terms of monolithic Republicans, followed by those who shared their dedication to returning the state to the old Boer republics. Discussions of the Rebellion have not focused on the interaction between leadership and rank and file, which in part has been obscured by Republican mythology based on the egalitarianism of the Boer commando. This paper attempts to establish the ambitions of the leaders for going into rebellion and the motivations of those who followed them. It traces the political and economic changes that came with union and industrialization, and asks why some influential men felt increasingly alienated from the new form of state structure while others adapted to it. To ascertain the nature of the support for the leaders, the discussion looks at Republican hierarchy and the ideology of patriarchy. The paper further discusses the circumscribed but significant role of women in the Rebellion. This article seeks to contribute to a wider understanding of the history of leadership in South Africa, entangled in the identity dynamics of masculinity, class and race interests.

Zimbabwean fiction writers have engaged with dogs as objects, subjects and even actors. This essay focuses on the pivotal forty-year period between 1975 and 2015, which saw the end of white rule, the rise of an independent African state and the collapse of that state. In analysing how selected writers have variously made use of dogs, we discuss the extent to which writers deal with human-dog relations. We buttress our point by examining key pieces of fiction in which dogs appear and we unpack the extent to which fictive representations of humans and dogs approximate lived relations in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial settings. We show the enduring relevance of dogs as metaphors of power in the Zimbabwean political landscape. We contend that such canine allegories have a history and explore their usage by creative writers over the last forty years.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, South Africa started to devise its own formalized child welfare system as part of a transnational (especially British) network of ideas. The state became an increasingly powerful agent in effecting change, and private charities (previously predicated on elite philanthropic volunteerism) buckled to its authority. Poor white children became understood as a category to be rescued, while the poverty of black children became normalized. The essay explores the ironies of embryonic child welfare and also how contemporary role players thought about these contradictions. State involvement did bring about relief for some sectors, but this came at the cost of reinforced racial hierarchies.

AbstractThe first four years of P.W. Botha's premiership in apartheid South Africa were plagued by intra‐party politicking, renewed anti‐apartheid resistance, economic instability, and Satan. Between 1978 and 1982, the heavy political rhetoric of "total onslaught" inflected perceived "moral onslaught" in a virulent moral panic over Satanism in white, and particularly Afrikaner, South Africa. With attention to its discursive and socio‐political context, this paper seeks to explore the emergence of this distinct satanic moral panic in white South African history, arguing that it reflects the intense political and moral ambiguity of white society as the edifices of apartheid began to fracture.

Introduction: Framing environmental history today and for the future / Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart -- Ethics, justice, and environmental histories / Heather Goodall, Meera Anna Oommen, and Madhuri Mondal -- Oral and environmental history : time, place, decolonisation and the more-than human world / Katie Holmes and Aet Annist -- Sounding environments / Hedley Twidle and Aragorn Eloff -- Geographical information system, remote sensing and spatial data infrastructure / Marina Miraglia and Kairo da Silva Santos -- The tangled bank / Harriet Ritvo and Rebecca Woods -- Multispecies cultures and environmental change : the animal (agency) turn / Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Heta Lähdesmäki -- Animal and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, and one health / Lyle Fearnley and Melissa Salm -- The non-human in agriculture : technologies of agriculture and non-human aspects of farming / Veronika Settele and Claiton Marcio da Silva -- (Inter)national and (Trans)regional agents : the coastal sand dunes of Mozambique / Joana Gaspar de Freitas, Inês Macamo Raimundo, Ignacio García Pereda, and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath -- Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and international environmental history: Reassembling conventions / Raf de Bont and Simone Schleper -- Hazards and disasters : locusts, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts / Katrin Kleemann and Admire Mseba -- Planetary boundaries, climate change and the Anthropocene / Ruth Morgan and Cristián Simonetti -- Extinction in environmental history : historizing problems of classification and intentionality / Dolly Jørgensen and Miles Powell -- Temporality and environmental history in the Anthropocene : timing climates, modeling futures / Emil Flatø and Erik Isberg -- Fossil fuels from extraction to emissions / Antoine Acker, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lukas Becker, Matthew Shutzer, and Nathalia Capellini -- Global histories of environment and labour in Asia and Africa / Mattin Biglari and Olisa Godson Muojama -- Toxicity, racial capitalism and colonial mining : lessons from cyanide and gold mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) / Elijah Doro and Marco Armiero -- Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the unseen / Stefan Dorondel, Veronica Mitroi-Tisseyre, and Youssoupha Tall -- Historical memory and technocratic failures in environmental impact assessments / Javiera Barandiarán and Ricardo Oyarzún -- Cities, food, water, and environmental history in China, the USA and India: Making bubbles / Shen Hou and David Biggs -- Urban environmental governance: Historical and political ecological perspectives from South Asia / Jenia Mukherjee and René Véron -- Pedagogy for the depressed : empowerment and hope in the face of the apocalypse / Michelle K. Berry and Emily Wakild -- Activist environmental history : on war machines and guerrilla strategies / Regina Horta Duarte, Bruna Luiza Costa Pessoa, and Lucas Erichsen -- Communicating environmental history : reaching diverse audiences through online forums / Jonatan Palmblad and Jessica M. DeWitt -- Environmental history in museums : past practice and future opportunities / Luke Keogh, Liisi Jääts, Nina Möllers, and Libby Robin -- Environmental historians, policy, and governance / Alessandro Antonello and Margaret Cook -- Future directions in environmental history / Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Jessica Urwin, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Bryan Umaru Kauma, Sangay Tamang, and Jayson Maurice Porter.

"The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field's growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning"--

Vol. 1: From early times to 1885 / ed. by Carolyn Hamilton ... - 2010. - XX,467 S. : graph. Darst., Kt., Lit.Hinw. - ISBN 978-0-521-51794-2; Vol. 2: 1985-1994 / ed. by Robert Ross ... - 2011. - XI,724 S. : graph. Darst., Tab., Lit. S. 651-695, Lit.Hinw. - ISBN 978-0-521-86983-6