William Mark Freund (6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020) was an American academic historian who was particularly known as an authority on the economic and labour history of Africa. His research focused primarily on South Africa.

2020年9月14日 · University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home in Durban, South Africa, on August 17....

William (Bill) Freund was a professor emeritus of economic history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He lived in Durban, South Africa. His research interests included African urban history and political economy, the developmental state, and African and South African political economy and economic history.

2020年9月17日 · University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Emeritus William Mark Freund, the economic, social, political, and development historian, died suddenly at his home in Durban, South Africa, on August 17. Seventy-six years old, he was born in Chicago to parents who had escaped the Holocaust spreading to Austria.

2021年8月25日 · Bill Freund, an economic historian, died in Durban in August 2020. He was 76 years old. Since his death, his autobiography, Bill Freund: An Historian’s Passage to Africa, 1 has been posthumously published.

Bill Freund may refer to: Bill Freund (cyclist) (born 1941), American Olympic cyclist; Bill Freund (historian) (1944–2020), American historian in South Africa

Bill Freund was a prolific and gifted historian, probably best known for his outstanding works of synthesis, which combined a mastery of large bodies of literature with incisive interpretation and argument.

Bill Freund was a prolific and gifted historian, probably best known for his outstanding works of synthesis, which combined a mastery of large bodies of literature with incisive interpretation and argument.

William (Bill) Freund was a professor emeritus of economic history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He lived in Durban, South Africa. His research interests included African urban history and political economy, the developmental state, and African and South African political economy and economic history.

Bill was a major figure in the study of South African history. He published six single-authored books, the first in 1981, Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines (Longman),...