HSS
California Institute of Technology
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Edwin S. Munger

Edwin S. Munger

Professor of Geography, Emeritus

Office: 134B Baxter Hall
Email: munger@hss.caltech.edu
Tel: 626-395-3634
Mailing Address:
California Institute of Technology
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
MC 228-77
Pasadena, CA 91125

Research interests

Political geography, race and ethnic relations, sub-Saharan Africa

Publications

1951 Relational Patterns of Kampala, Uganda. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1955 "Geography of Sub-Saharan Race Relations." In Africa Today, edited by C. Grove Haines. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press.

1958 "Self-Confidence and Self-Criticism in South Africa." In Foreign Affairs, An American Quarterly Review, Vol. 36, No. 4. New York: Council on Foreign Relations.

1960 "Africa." In Select Biography: Asia Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, edited by Phillips Talbot. New York: American Universities Field Staff.

1960 "Liberia's Economic and Human Progress." In The New Nations of West Africa, edited by Robert Theobald. New York: H.W. Wilson Company.

1961 African Field Reports, (Introduction by C.W. de Kiewiet). Cape Town: Struik.

1963 "Boundaries and African Nationalism." In The California Geographer, Vol. IV. Rohnert Park: California Geographical Society.

1963 "Race and National Identification." In Expectant Peoples: Nationalism and Development, edited by K.H. Silvert. NewYork: Random House.

1965 Bechuanaland: Pan-African Outpost or Bantu Homeland? London: Oxford University Press.

1965 Notes on the Formation of South African Policy. Pasadena: Castle Press.

1967 Afrikaner and African Nationalism. London: Oxford University Press.

1968 Southern Africa and the United States, with W.A. Hance, Leo Kuper and Vernon McKay. New York: Columbia University Press.

1969 "South Africa: Are There Silver Linings?" In Foreign Affairs, An American Quarterly Review, Vol. 47, No. 2. New York: Council on Foreign Relations.

1970-1985 Africana Library Notes (88 issues), editor. Pasadena: Munger Africana Library.

1974 "Sanctions in Rhodesia". In Africa: The Heritage and the Challenge,

edited by Joan G. Roland. New York: Fawcett.

1975 "The Afrikaner as Seen Abroad." In Looking at the Afrikaner, edited by Hendrik W. van der Merwe. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

1978 "Prognosis: The United States and South Africa." In Race and Politics in South Africa, edited by Ian Robertson and Phillip Whitten. New Brunswick: Transaction Books.

1979 "The Internal Settlement: The View from South Africa." In Crisis in Zimbabwe, edited by Boniface Obichere. New York: Westview Press.

1979 The Afrikaners. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

1983 Touched by Africa. Pasadena: Castle Press.

1990 "Sickle Cell Anemia, Genetic Variations, and the Slave Trade to the United States." In Journal of African History 31. London: Cambridge University Press.

1995 Rwanda, A Fascinating Story of Man and Gorilla in Africa's Mountains of the Moon. Dexter: Thompson-Shore.

1996 Cultures, Chess & Art, A Collector's Odyssey Across Seven Continents Volume 1 Sub-Saharan Africa. San Anselmo: Mundial Press.

1998 Cultures, Chess & Art, A Collector's Odyssey Across Seven Continents Volume 2 The Americas. San Anselmo: Mundial Press.

2000 Cultures, Chess & Art, A Collector's Odyssey Across Seven Continents Volume 3 Pacific Islands and Asia. San Anselmo: Mundial Press.

[2008 Cultures, Chess & Art, A Collector's Odyssey Across Seven Continents Volume 4 Russia, India and Europe. San Anselmo: Mundial Press.]