Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morrell, Robert

Titel

Bill Freund (1944–2020) : economic historian

Ist Teil von

• South African journal of science, 2020-09, Vol.116 (9-10), p.2-2

Ort / Verlag

Pretoria: Academy of Science for South Africa (ASSAf)

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bill (William Mark) Freund died suddenly in Durban in the early hours of Monday, 17 August 2020. The virtual memorial event held the following Saturday and attended by over 170 people testified to his scholarship, his intellectual influence, and to the vast network of friends and admirers that he had built up in a career that began with the completion of a Yale PhD in 1971. Bill was a major figure in the study of South African history. He published six single-authored books, the first in 1981, Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines (Longman), and the latest in 2018, Twentieth Century South Africa: A Developmental History (Cambridge University Press). In between these he wrote numerous articles, many chapters in books and reviews, co-edited two books and graduated 12 PhD students.