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
- The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894–1985 (1996), described as a "detailed and compelling history of the effect of South Africa's Land Laws on one man and his family"[3]
- New Babylon New Nineveh: Everyday life on the Witwatersand 1886–1914, a social and economic history of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century Witwatersrand
- The Fox and the Flies (2007), a social, political, and economic history of the Trans-Atlantic underworld from about 1890 until 1918, the year Joseph Silver was executed by the Austro-Hungarian military, in which Van Onselen speculates that Silver could have been Jack the Ripper[4]
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
- 1 2 3 "Prof Charles van Onselen". University of Pretoria. 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ↑ "UP's Prof Charles van Onselen awarded prestigious Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Prize". University of Pretoria. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ↑ "Footnotes".
- ↑ Grimes, William (3 October 2007). "Charles van Onselen - The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal - Book - Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
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