| Twentieth-century south africa W Beinart OUP Oxford, 2001 | 1071 | 2001 |
| Environment and empire W Beinart, L Hughes Oxford University Press, 2007 | 591 | 2007 |
| The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: settlers, livestock, and the environment 1770-1950 W Beinart Oxford University Press, 2008 | 531 | 2008 |
| Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development: a southern African exploration, 1900–1960 W Beinart Journal of Southern African Studies 11 (1), 52-83, 1984 | 529 | 1984 |
| Environment and history: The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa W Beinart, P Coates Routledge, 2002 | 479 | 2002 |
| The political economy of Pondoland, 1860-1930 W Beinart (No Title), 1982 | 453 | 1982 |
| Hidden struggles in rural South Africa: politics & popular movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape, 1890-1930 W Beinart, C Bundy Univ of California Press, 1987 | 431 | 1987 |
| Segregation and apartheid in twentieth-century South Africa W Beinart, S Dubow Psychology Press, 1995 | 371 | 1995 |
| African history and environmental history W Beinart African Affairs 99 (395), 269-302, 2000 | 288 | 2000 |
| An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human–predator relations S Pooley, M Barua, W Beinart, A Dickman, G Holmes, J Lorimer, ... Conservation Biology 31 (3), 513-523, 2017 | 273 | 2017 |
| Putting a plough to the ground: Accumulation and dispossession in rural South Africa, 1850-1930 W Beinart, P Delius, S Trapido (No Title), 1986 | 249 | 1986 |
| Introduction: the politics of colonial conservation W Beinart Journal of Southern African Studies 15 (2), 143-162, 1989 | 221 | 1989 |
| Social history and African environments W Beinart, JA McGregor James Currey, Ohio University Press and David Philip, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| Political and collective violence in Southern African historiography W Beinart Journal of Southern African Studies 18 (3), 455-486, 1992 | 137 | 1992 |
| Plant transfers in historical perspective: a review article W Beinart, K Middleton Environment and History 10 (1), 3-29, 2004 | 125 | 2004 |
| Experts and expertise in colonial Africa reconsidered: science and the interpenetration of knowledge W Beinart, K Brown, D Gilfoyle African Affairs 108 (432), 413-433, 2009 | 111 | 2009 |
| Introduction: The historiography of segregation and apartheid 1 W Beinart, S Dubow Segregation and apartheid in twentieth century South Africa, 1-24, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| Empire, hunting and ecological change in southern and central Africa W Beinart Past & Present, 162-186, 1990 | 97 | 1990 |
| The night of the jackal: sheep, pastures and predators in the Cape W Beinart Past & Present, 172-206, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
| The historical context and legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913 W Beinart, P Delius Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (4), 667-688, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
