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Bill Nasson
Author of history books
Professor of History, Stellenbosch University
William Richard Nasson (Bill) was born on 28 May 1952 in Cape Town.
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Books:
Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape 1899-1902, Cambridge University Press, 1991/2002
Education: From Poverty to Liberty (co-edited with John Samuel), David Philip, 1991
All, Here and Now: Black Politics in South Africa in the 1980s (principal co-author with T. Lodge et al), Ford, 1991 and David Philip, Cape Town, 1991
The South African War 1899-1902, Arnold, 1999 and Oxford University Press, 1999
(4a. Dutch-language version, with additional chapter: Den Boerenoorlog 1899-1902 Verloren, Hilversum, 1999)
Uyadela Wen'Osulapho: Black Participation in the Anglo-Boer War, Ravan, 1999),
Britannia's Empire: Making a British World, Tempus, Stroud, 2004
(PB edition, with minor changes: Britannia's Empire: A Short History of the British Empire, Tempus, Stroud, 2006)
(Das Britische Empire: Ein Weltreich unterm Union Jack, Magnus-Verlag, 2007: German-language version, with new introduction)
Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918, Penguin, Johannesburg, 2007; Penguin, Global, 2008
The War for South Africa: The Anglo-Boer War: 1899-1902 (new edition of 1999 The South African War), Tafelberg, 2010
Book recognition:
shortlist, Herskovits African Studies Book Prize (Abraham Esau's War 1992)
UCT Book Award 1993 for Abraham Esau's War: A black South African War in the Cape 1899-1902
Recommended Book, Library Society of New York (Britannia's Empire, 2005)
UCT Book Award 2007 for Britannia's Empire - Making a British World (Tempus, 2004)
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