Charles van Onselen is a researcher and historian based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Education

Van Onselen holds a B.Sc. and U.E.D. from Rhodes University, a B.A. Hons. from the University of the Witwatersrand, a D.Phil. from Oxford University and a D.Lit.(Honoris Causa) from Rhodes.[1]

Academic career

He is based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.[1][2]

Recognition and awards

He received the Alan Paton Award for The Seed is Mine in 1997.[1]

Selected works

Bibliography

  • Chibaro: African mine labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933. London: Pluto Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0902818880.
  • Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886–1914: Volume I: New Babylon, Volume II: New Nineveh. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 1982.
  • The Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. 1984. ISBN 0869752391.
  • The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985. Oxford: James Currey. 1996.
  • The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal. New York: Walker Publishing. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8027-1641-5.
  • Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899. Cape Town: Zebra Press. 2010. ISBN 9781770220805.
  • Showdown at the Red Lion: The Life and Times of Jack McLoughlin, 1859-1910. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. 2015. ISBN 9781868426225.
  • The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, The American West, and the Jameson Raid. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. 2017. ISBN 9781868427383.
  • The Night Trains. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. 2019. ISBN 9781868429806.

References


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