Dr Jeremy Martens

BA (Hons) Natal; MA, PhD Queen's

Tel: 61 8 6488 2154
Fax: 61 8 6488 1069
Email: jmartens@arts.uwa.edu.au


Teaching & Research Interests

Global history, South African, African and Imperial history, the history of race and racism. Research interests include the evolution of immigration restriction legislation in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as race, gender and the law in nineteenth and twentieth century South Africa.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

"'Civilised Domesticity', Race and European Attempts to Regulate African Marriage Practices in Colonial Natal, 1868-1875" The History of the Family Vol. 14 No. 4, 2009, pp. 340-355.

"Richard Seddon and popular opposition in New Zealand to the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal, 1903-1904" New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 42 No. 2, 2008, pp. 176-195.

"Enlightenment Theories of Civilization and Savagery in British Natal:The Colonial Origins of the (Zulu) African Barbarism Myth" in Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole (eds) Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present (New York, Columbia University Press, 2008; London, C. Hurst & Co. 2008; Pietermaritzburg, UKZN Press, 2008), pp. 122-132.

"'Disturbing and most poisonous agitations': Henry Parkes, populism and the usurpation of law in New South Wales, 1888" in Peter Limb (ed.) Orb and Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and Its Legacies (Melbourne, Monash University EPress; hardcopy version printed by Sydney University Press, 2008), pp. 8.1-8.26.

"Citizenship, 'Civilisation' and the Creation of South Africa's Immorality Act, 1927" South African Historical Journal Vol. 59, 2007, pp. 223-241.

"A Transnational History of Immigration Restriction: Natal and New South Wales 1896-97" The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Vol. 34 No. 3, 2006, pp. 323-344.

"The Impact of Theories of Civilization and Savagery on Native Policy in Colonial Natal" in Tanya Lyons and Geralyn Pye (eds) Africa on a Global Stage (Trenton, Africa World Press, 2006), pp. 15-29.

"Polygamy, Sexual Danger, and the Creation of Vagrancy Legislation in Colonial Natal" The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Vol. 31 No. 3, 2003, pp. 24-45.

"Settler Homes, Manhood and 'Houseboys': an Analysis of Natal's Rape Scare of 1886" Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 28 No. 2, 2002, pp. 379-400.

"'Almost a Public Calamity': Prostitutes, 'Nurseboys', and Attempts to Control Venereal Diseases in Colonial Natal, 1886-1890" South African Historical Journal Vol. 45, 2001, pp. 27-52.

"Conflicting Views of 'Coloured' People in the South African Liquor Bill Debate of 1928" Canadian Journal of African Studies Vol. 35 No. 2, 2001, pp. 313-338.

Work in Progress

Government House and Western Australian Society, 1829-2009.

"Crimen Injuria, Race and Respectability in Segregation Era South Africa".

"Intoxicating liquor, Racial Prohibition and Indian Traders in Colonial Natal".