Geschichte Afrikas (Professur Tischler)

Morelli, Ettore (2025) ‘Dos or Pretium ?: Marriage, Slavery, and the Roman Inquisition in Lesotho, 1850s-1880s’, Journal of Religion in Africa [Preprint]. 06.01.2025, (Advance Articles). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340324.

Tischler, Julia (2025) Cultivating Race: Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950. Oxford University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198917311.001.0001 .

Korn, T. (2024) A Global History of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda.

Ngwenya, B. (2024) Blurring the Blue Line: African Police, Emergency and the Struggle for Independence in Colonial Northern Matabeleland, 1959-1980.

Anna Jikhareva (2024) ‘Flüchtlingspolitik. Die ewige Sehnsucht nach Ruanda’, Die Wochenzeitung, 2 May. Available at: https://www.woz.ch/2418/fluechtlingspolitik/die-ewige-sehnsucht-nach-ruanda/!HEYYHRMW03MW.

Morelli, Ettore (2024) ‘Seetsele Modiri Molema: Historian of the Barolong, 1891–1965’, Afriques [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/afriques.4788.

Herzog, K. (2024) Violent Encounters: Practices and Perceptions of Violence in Southern Namibia and the Northern Cape, c. 1880-1910.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame and Daudi, Francis (2024) ‘Diamonds, risk and insurance practices in British Africa, with an emphasis on the Gold Coast and Tanganyika’, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 58, pp. 133–156. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2023.2288157.

Beutter, A. and Sewordor, E.S.K. (2024) ‘A processual perspective on utopia as a lived social project: the case of a Ghanaian ‘Christian Town’’, Religion, 54(3), pp. 514–537. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2024.2362062.

Herzog, Kai and Tischler, Julia (2024) ‘Violence and intimacy in colonial and postcolonial Africa’, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 94(1), pp. 1–16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972024000020.

Nicolas, C. (2024) ‘On the field: Race, gender and sports in colonial Ghana’, Gender and History [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12773.

Nicolas, Claire (2024) Une si longue course: Sport, genre et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970). Presses universitaires de Rennes. Available at: https://books.openedition.org/pur/239805.

Rizzo, Lorena (2024) ‘The Materiality and Visuality of Intimacy in a South African Colonial Archive’, in Gossage, P.; Moore, L. (ed.) Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Perspective. Montreal: Concordia University Press (Family and Justice in the Archives: Histories of Intimacy in Transnational Perspective).

Nicolas, C. (2023) ‘Amitiés féminines postcoloniales : le difficile dépassement des héritages impériaux (Suisse – Côte d’Ivoire, 1968-1975)’, Monde(s), N° 24(2), pp. 163–182. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3917/mond1.224.0163.

Hartmann, Heinrich and Tischler, Julia (2023) PLANTING SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE. 1 edn. Berghahn Books. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805390107.

Böhi, M. (2023) A South African Social Garden: People, Plants and Multispecies Histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden .

Erpelding, B. (2023) Sklaverei und Kriegsgefangenschaft in den west-afrikanischen Missionsgebieten der 1870er Jahre. Neuentdeckung einer Zeit unter dem Volk der Asante.

Morelli, Ettore (2023) ‘‘“The Day We Were Bound For Malta”. I canti degli ausiliari africani durante la seconda guerra mondiale’’, Africa e Mediterraneo, 98(1), pp. 60–67.

Rizzo, Lorena (2023) ‘Restoration or Recycling? Uncertainties of a Burnt Library’, in McBride, Sindi-Leigh; Rensing, Julia (ed.) Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press (Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives).

Rizzo, Lorena (2023) ‘Photography’s Distance from Within’, in Brandt, Nicola (ed.) The Distance Within. Göttingen: Steidl (The Distance Within).

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2023) ‘The Opportunity for Loss is Fully Appreciated, but: Theft and Conflicting Policy in the Making of the Gold Coast’s Diamond-Mining Industry, 1919-1950s’, African Economic History, 51(1), pp. 93–120. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.51.1.93.

Sewordor, E.S.K. (2023) ‘The Opportunity for Loss is Fully Appreciated, but: Theft and Conflicting Policy in the Making of the Gold Coast’s Diamond-Mining Industry, 1919-1950s’, African Economic History, 51(1), pp. 93–120. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.51.1.93.

Zenhäusern, F. (2023) «nothing in him that appeared barbarous»: Eine sinnesgeschichtliche Analyse der Zivilisiertheit in William Snelgraves Reisebericht ‘A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave trade’, 1734.

Zingg, J. (2023) Kenianische Fairtrade-Rosen im Schweizer Blumenhandel. Zur Frage der Selbstbestimmung der kenianischen Akteur*innen während des Max Havelaar-Stiftung Pilotprojekts (2001–2005).

Hartmann, Heinrich and Tischler, Julia (2023) ‘Introduction. Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century’, in Planting Seeds of Knowledge. Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century. Berghahn Books (Planting Seeds of Knowledge. Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century), pp. 1–30. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805390114-003.

Tischler, Julia (2023) ‘Chapter 9 The Politics of Rural Domesticity in Segregationist South Africa, 1902–48’, in Planting Seeds of Knowledge. Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century. Berghahn Books (Planting Seeds of Knowledge. Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century), pp. 217–244. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805390114-012.

Tischler, Julia (2023) ‘Malaria (1962). Chemie statt Dekolonisierung’, in Deutsche Filmgeschichten. Historische Portraits. Wallstein Verlag (Deutsche Filmgeschichten. Historische Portraits.), pp. 119–123. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783835384484-119.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2022) ‘Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia: Diamond Smuggling, Migrant Workers and Development in Owamboland’, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 57(1), pp. 254–256. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133361.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2022) ‘The Urban Culture of the “Model” Christian Settlement at Abokobi, Ghana, 1854–1929’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 81(2), pp. 197–212. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.2.197.

Brattig, Norbert W. et al. (2022) ‘More than seven decades of Acta Tropica: looking back to move into the future’, Acta tropica, 226, p. 106155. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106155.

Brunner, L. (2022) Der Basler Ethnologe Felix Speiser (1880-1994): Ein Leben zwischen Museum, Reisen und Forschen.

Bucher, B. (2022) Koloniales Basel. Aspekte der kolonialen Verstrickungen Basels anhand der Sammlungsgeschichte der Ausstellung von 1957 im Museum für Völkerkunde Basel.

Graf, Andrea et al. (2022) ‘More than seven decades of Acta Tropica: partnership to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, Acta tropica, 225, p. 106175. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106175.

Morelli, Ettore (2022) ‘“A Bushman Cannot Rule”: Power, Movement, and Freedom in the Family of Moletsane. Central Southern Africa, 1849 and 1967’, Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, 4(2), pp. 89–118. Available at: https://doi.org/10.23744/4764.

Morelli, Ettore (2022) ‘Bonded: Elite Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho’, Slavery and Abolition, 43(2), pp. 285–319. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2022.2063232.

Rutishauser, W. (2022) Noordoewer and the Orange River Boundary.

van Zyl-Hermann, D. et al. (2022) ‘Examining African contributions to global health: reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation’, Glob Public Health, pp. 1–16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2118343.

Tischler, Julia (2021) ‘‘The Only Industry That Can Make Us Hold Our Own’: Black Agrarianism in South Africa from a Transatlantic Perspective, ca. 1910-1930’, American Historical Review, 126(4), pp. 1396–1423. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab538.

Nicolas, C. (2021) ‘Physical education in the colonial gold coast: From a civilizing mission to “useful citizens”’, Social Sciences, 10(2), pp. 1–17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020077.

Benz, M. (2021) Der Vertrag von Lausanne 1923 - Kontextualisierung eines globalen Konflikts an der Grenze Europas.

Herzog, Kai F. (2021) ‘Violence and Work: Convict Labour and Settler Colonialism in the Cape-Namibia Border Region’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47(1), pp. 17–36. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1861819.

Ischi, K. (2021) Die Schweiz und Ujamaa. Die aussenpolitischen Beziehungen der Schweiz zum sozialistischen Tansania, 1964 - ca.1975.

Kifyasi, A.A. (2021) Neither “Saviour” nor “Exploiter”: A Historical Study of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania.

Leuenberger, N. (2021) ZRH-JNB. Die politische Dimension einer Fluglinie 1947-1968.

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra, Mihatsch, Moritz and Sikes, Michelle (2021) Memory, Commemoration and the Politics of Historical Memory in Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenburg.

Moore, Bernard C. et al. (2021) ‘Balancing the Scales: Re-Centring Labour and Labourers in Namibian History’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47(1), pp. 1–16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1859795.

Morelli, Ettore (2021) ‘Review of Rachel King, Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa: Material Histories of the Maloti-Drakensberg, Cham (Switzerland), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, xxi + 285 pages, with original maps, pictures of documents, diagrams, and figures.’, Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, 3(1), pp. 132–135. Available at: https://www.viella.it/rivista/9788833137971/5205.

Rentsch, D. (2021) Congo Atrocities”, Complicity and Colonial Innocence. Swiss Travelogues from the État Independant du Congo, 1885–1908.

Seck, M. (2021) Kolonialismus, Assimilation und kulturelle Selbstbehauptung. Paulette Nardal, Jugendjahre und Pariser Zwischenkriegszeit: Ein politisches Porträt.

Streicher, J. (2021) ‘Mark my words, the educated inherit this land’. The Representation of Education in Southern African Anglophone Fiction.

Tischler, Julia (2021) ‘Der Beweis’. Blogbeitrag. Available at: https://mhistories.hypotheses.org/1235.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2020) ‘“The Humble Petition of Johana Nyewuame Bekrah”: Becoming/Being Gã, Straddling “Spaces”, and Negotiating Boundaries in the Gold Coast Christian “Model Town” (Abokobi), ca. 1860–1980’, Journal of West African History, 6(1), pp. 1–27. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.6.1.0001.

Hammel, Tanja (2020) ‘Linda Ratschiller, Karolin Wetjen (Hg.), Verflochtene Mission. Perspektiven auf eine neue Missionsgeschichte, Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2018, 248 Seiten, 9 Abbildungen.’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 70(1), pp. 146–148.

Hammel, Tanja (2020) ‘Tge far cun statuas dispitaivlas? In exempel a Neuchâtel’, RTR. Switzerland (RTR). Available at: https://www.rtr.ch/novitads/svizra/la-svizra-ed-il-colonialissem-tge-far-cun-statuas-dispitaivlas-in-exempel-a-neuchatel.

Nicolas, C. (2020) ‘Upstanding Youngsters: Ivorian Scouting and the Manufacture of a Subordinate Citizenship (1937–1979)’, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2020.568013.

Perniola, R. (2020) Tsuku Tsuku Says the Black Train. Remembering the Railway in Namibia.

Rensing, Julia (2020) ‘Fest auf dem Sockel. Der Schädelsammler Alexander Ecker wird in Freiburg noch immer geehrt’, iz3w: Informationszentrum Dritte Welt, 381, pp. 14–16.

Roulet, L. (2020) Khuan//a - The Framing/Making of an Iconic Portrait.

Sewordor, E. Sasu Kwame (2020) ‘‘We Sympathise With the Mines for Pilfery That Goes on But…’: African Interests in Gold Coast Mines, Protecting Gold, and the Politics of Legislation, 1907–1948’, African Economic History, 48(2), pp. 138–168. Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/775579.

Tischler, Julia (2020) ‘Weisse Männer auf hohen Sockeln. Zum Umgang mit Denkmälern in Südafrika’, Bulletin des Vereins Schweizerischer GeschichtslehrerInnen, (2020), pp. 49–50.

Hammel, Tanja (2020) ‘Parcels Render Neglected People Visible’, in Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina; Rentetzi, Maria (ed.) Boxes: A Field Guide. Manchester: Mattering Press (Boxes: A Field Guide), pp. 231–240. Available at: https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Boxes-ePDF-v1.pdf.

Tischler, Julia and Haltermann, Ingo (2020) ‘Introduction. Environmental Change and African Societies’, in Tischler, Julia; Haltermann, Ingo (ed.) Environmental Change and African Societies. Leiden: Brill (Climate and Culture), pp. 1–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410848_002.

Morelli, Ettore (2019) ‘“HAVE YOU EVER CAPTURED ANYTHING FOR YOUR PARENTS?” WAR, CAPTIVITY, AND SLAVERY ON THE PRECOLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICAN HIGHVELD, C.1800-71’, Journal of African History, 60(1), pp. 45–65. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853719000343.

Braams, O. (2019) Die Cameroon Press Photo Archives-Buea und die Dekolonisation von Britisch- Südkamerun. Oder: Ein Schirm im Fokus der Nation.

Graf, A. (2019) James Africanus Beale Horton, Medizinaltopographien und wissenschafltiche Selbstlegitimierung vor der mikrobiologischen Revolution (ca. 1835-1885).

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra and Mihatsch, Moritz A. (2019) ‘Liberia an(d) Empire?: Sovereignty, “Civilisation” and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century West Africa’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47(5), pp. 884–911. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1677339.

Nicolas, C. and Vonnard, P. (2019) ‘Ohene djan. A pan-africanist activist taking over FIFA? Ohene Djan. Un militant panafricaniste à la conquête de la FIFA? Ohene Djan. Ein panafrikanischer Kämpfer bei der Eroberung der FIFA? Ohene Djan. ¿Un activista panafricanista para conquistar la FIFA?’, Staps, 125(3), pp. 49–68. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3917/sta.125.0049.

Tischler, Julia and Haltermann, Ingo (2019) Environmental change and African societies, Climate and culture. Leiden: Brill (Climate and culture). Available at: https://brill.com/view/title/54203?language=en.

Zinsstag, J. et al. (2019) ‘Reverse innovation in global health’, Journal of Public Health and Emergency, 3, p. 2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21037/jphe.2018.12.05.

Züchner, A. (2019) Der Kruger Nationalpark und seine Besucher im Wandel der Zeit - Ein Nationalpark im Spannungsfeld zwischen Nationalerbe, Naturschutz und der südafrikanischen Bevölkerung.

Tischler, Julia (2019) ‘Agriculture’, in Bellucci, Stefano; Eckert, Andreas (ed.) General Labour History of Africa. Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries. Suffolk: James Currey (General Labour History of Africa. Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries), pp. 119–150. Available at: https://boydellandbrewer.com/general-labour-history-of-africa.html.

Boehi , M. (2018) A South African Social Garden. People, Plants and Multispecies Histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (Zweitgutachten).

Brühwiler, Benjamin (2018) ‘Interweaving threads of credit and debt: Trading (through) textiles in colonial Dar es Salaam’, Business history, 60(4), pp. 474–491. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2017.1325466.

Brumann, E. (2018) Die Basler Mission an der Goldküste, 1914-1918 (Zweitgutachten).

Cardenas, L. (2018) Pathways to Activism. A Historical Study of Sahrawi Women’s Activism.

Feser, S. (2018) Rural Poor White – and Female. Poor Whites in the United States and South African during the First Half of the Twentieth Century (HU Berlin, Global History, Zweitgutachten).

Leu, Z. (2018) Black Policemen in Apartheid South Africa: The Experiences, Roles and Perceptions of Black Policemen in Kimberley during Apartheid in South Africa 1979-1980.

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra (2018) ‘Of Vagrants and Volunteers During Liberia’s Operation Production, 1963-1969’, African economic history, 46(2), pp. 147–172. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1353/aeh.2018.0009.

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra (2018) Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital. mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909, Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora. Rochester: University of Rochester Press (Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12807.

Tischler, Julia (2018) ‘Mission, Education and Music in Southern Africa’, in Schmidt, Matthias; Baumgartner, Andreas (ed.) «Unser Land»? / ‘Our Land’? Lesothos schweizerische Nationalhymne / Lesotho’s Swiss National Anthem. Basel: Merian Verlag («Unser Land»? / ‘Our Land’? Lesothos schweizerische Nationalhymne / Lesotho’s Swiss National Anthem), pp. 140–149.

Nicolas, C. (2017) ‘Des corps connectés : les Ghana Young Pioneers, tête de proue de la mondialisation du nkrumahisme (1960-1966)’, Politique africaine, n° 147(3), pp. 87–107. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.147.0087.

Mlombo, A. (2017) Southern Rhodesia’s Relationship with South Africa, 1923-1953 (Externes Gutachten, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Südafrika).

di Sannio, F. (2017) Vom Soldat zum Söldner: Der Fall von Executive Outcomes.

Gepperth, N. (2017) Changing Concepts of Masculinity - A Historical Study on Cameroonian Migrants in Germany.

Jenny, R. (2017) End of Supremacy: White Rhodesian Commandos and their Motives for Fighting at the Closing Phase of Zimbabwe’s War of Liberation, 1979-1980.

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra (2017) ‘African Women and the ‘Lazy African’ Myth in Nineteenth-Century West Africa’, in Bänziger, Peter-Paul; Suter, Mischa (ed.) Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy. New York: Routledge (Routledge studies in modern history), pp. 42–56.

Tischler, Julia (2016) ‘Education and the Agrarian question in South Africa, c. 1900-40’, Journal of African history, 57(2), pp. 251–270. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853716000062.

Tischler, Julia (2016) ‘Fliessendes Kapital. Flüsse in Afrika’, Afrika Bulletin, (163), pp. 3–3. Available at: http://www.afrikakomitee.ch/Bulletin/AfrikaBulletin163%202016.pdf.

van Zelderen, M. (2016) Notions of Culture and its Significance in Doing Business in and with Africa (Zweitgutachten).

Tischler, J. (2015) ‘„Whose Power?”’, in Energie und Entwicklung in der Spätkolonialzeit am Beispiel des Kariba- Staudamms in der Zentralafrikanischen Föderation. DE GRUYTER (Energie und Entwicklung in der Spätkolonialzeit am Beispiel des Kariba- Staudamms in der Zentralafrikanischen Föderation), pp. 266–286. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783486781052.266.

Brühwiler, Benjamin (2015) Moralities of owing and lending: Credit, debt, and urban living in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam. Dissertation.

Greschke, H. and Tischler, J. (2015) ‘Introduction: Grounding Global Climate Change’. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 1–16. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3_1.

Greschke, Heike M. and Tischler, Julia (2014) Grounding Global Climate Change : Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3.

Tischler, Julia (2014) ‘Cementing Uneven Development: The Central African Federation and the Kariba Dam Scheme’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 40(5), pp. 1047–1064. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2014.946221.

Tischler, Julia (2014) ‘Whose power? Energie und Entwicklung in der Spätkolonialzeit am Beispiel des Kariba-Staudamms in der Zentralafrikanischen Föderation’, Historische Zeitschrift, Beiheft 63, pp. 266–286.

Greschke, Heike M. and Tischler, Julia (2014) ‘Introduction: Grounding Global Climate Change’, in Greschke, Heike M.; Tischler, Julia (ed.) Grounding Global Climate Change Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer (Grounding Global Climate Change Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences), pp. 1–16.

Tischler, Julia (2014) ‘Negotiating Modernization: The Kariba Dam Project in the Central African Federation’, in Modernization as Spectacle in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (Cultural studies Africa), pp. 159–183.

Tischler, Julia (2013) Light and power for a multiracial nation : the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation, Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137268778.

Tischler, Julia (2011) ‘Resisting Modernisation? Two African Responses to the Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation’, Comparativ, 21(1), pp. 60–75.