Books by Nancy J. (Brown University Jacobs

African History through Sources presents the history of colonial Africa using more than 100 primary sources, each with an introduction to provide context. This work complements standard textbook narratives with varied and non-traditional accounts of life during Africa's colonial past.

Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks.