| The rainbow nation? Identity and nation building in post-apartheid South Africa G Baines Mots pluriels 7 (1998), 1-12, 1998 | 186 | 1998 |
| Composing apartheid: Music for and against apartheid G Baines, I Byerly, C Cockburn, D Coplan NYU Press, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| Beyond the Border War: new perspectives on Southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts G Baines, P Vale Unisa Press, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| South Africa's' Border War': Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories G Baines Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| The politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa G Baines History making and present day politics: The meaning of collective memory in …, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
| The master narrative of South Africa's liberation struggle: Remembering and forgetting June 16, 1976 G Baines The International Journal of African Historical Studies 40 (2), 283-302, 2007 | 60 | 2007 |
| Site of struggle: the Freedom Park fracas and the divisive legacy of South Africa’s Border War/Liberation Struggle G Baines Social Dynamics 35 (2), 330-344, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| "Our Vietnam" - Representations of the Border War in South African Literature' G Baines Telling Wounds: Narrative, Trauma & Memory: Working Through the SA Armed …, 2002 | 43* | 2002 |
| The origins of urban segregation: Local government and the residence of Africans in Port Elizabeth, c. 1835–1865 G Baines South African Historical Journal 22 (1), 61-81, 1990 | 32 | 1990 |
| Blame, shame or reaffirmation? White conscripts reassess the meaning of the ‘Border War’in post-apartheid South Africa G Baines Interculture 5 (3), 214-227, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Lionising De la Rey: Afrikaner identity politics and performative nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa G Baines African Identities 11 (3), 249-259, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| On location: narratives of the South African city of the late 1940s and 1950s in film and literature G Baines South African Historical Journal 48 (1), 35-46, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
| A History of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1903-1953: The Detroit of the Union GF Baines Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| The control and administration of Port Elizabeth's African population, c. 1834-1923. G Baines Contree, 13-21, 1989 | 20 | 1989 |
| Introduction: Challenging the boundaries, breaking the silences G Baines Beyond the Border War: New perspectives on Southern Africa’s late-cold war …, 2008 | 19 | 2008 |
| Popular music and negotiating whiteness in apartheid South Africa G Baines Composing Apartheid: Music for and against Apartheid, 99-113, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Racist Hate Speech in South Africa's Fragile Democracy: The Case of Ngema's ‘AmaNdiya’ G Baines Popular Music Censorship in Africa, 53-69, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| Narratives of New Brighton: Representations of the Port Elizabeth township in official discourse, cultural memory, and public history G Baines African studies 64 (2), 243-261, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| The contradictions of community politics: the African petty bourgeoisie and the New Brighton Advisory Board, c. 1937–1952 G Baines The Journal of African History 35 (1), 79-97, 1994 | 16 | 1994 |
| De La Rey rides (yet) again: Afrikaner identity politics and nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa G Baines IASPM International Conference, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
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