Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the SA-UK Bilateral Chair in Political Theory, based in the School of Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, held by Professor Lawrence Hamilton, for the research fellowship during which time the main draft of the book was written.
I would also like to thank: Komnas Poriazis, for many discussions of the issues; Thad Metz, for helpful comments on Chapters 5 and 6; an anonymous reviewer for the Historical Materialism Book Series; and the reviewers and editorial boards whose advice and editing guided the journal articles listed below to publication.
In the chapters indicated, the book reproduces, revises or expands arguments first presented in: