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THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
VOLUME 100, NO. 2, APRIL 1995
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ARTICLES....
Rape, Race, and Colonial Culture: The Sexual Politics of Identity in
the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa
By Pamela Scully, 335
Pamela Scully analyzes the interplay of local Cape Colony and
metropolitan British ideas about race, class, sex, and honor as
they affected sentencing in rape cases. She begins with the story
of a black man condemned to death for the rape of a white woman,
a sentence later commuted when white men of the community
informed the judge that in their opinion the raped woman was not
actually white. Previous studies of rape in the period following
slave emancipation in South Africa have focused on fears about
the rape of white women by black men. The cases discussed by
Scully suggest that colonialism and the pliable categories of
race and class that accompanied it encouraged the rape of black
women by white men. ....
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS
GENERAL ....
Karen Armstrong. A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam.
By Herbert Mason, 481
Michael Adas, editor. Islamic and European Expansion: The Forging of a
Global Order.
By Ira M. Lapidus, 482 ....
James O. Gump. The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu
and the Sioux.
By William F. Lye, 488 ....
Rami Ginat. The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945-1955.
By Joel Gordon, 495 ....
NEAR EAST
Carl F. Petry. Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans
al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qansuh al-Ghawri in Egypt.
By Fred H. Lawson, 559 ....
AFRICA
Michael A. Gomez. Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial
State of Bundu.
By James L. A. Webb, Jr., 562
Jeffrey A. Fadiman. When We Began There Were Witchmen: An Oral History
from Mount Kenya.
By Thomas Spear, 563
Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan. Cutting Down Trees: Gender,
Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of
Zambia 1890-1990.
By Sara Berry, 563
Les Switzer. Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei
Xhosa and the Making of South Africa.
By Alan R. Booth, 564 ....