The Making of the South African past
Major Historians on Race and Class
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3911095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Butler, Christopher Saunders (0000-0003-4565-4107) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219987 |
| OpenAlex | W1562600862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
Over the past one hundred years, a body of historical knowledge and writing has been built up which has sought to explain and describe the unique configuration of South African Society. In the historical evolution of this society prominence and sometimes primacy have been variously accorded to the concepts of race and class. This survey of the lives and works of the major historians of South AfricaoG. M. Theal, W. M. Macmillan, C. W. de Kiewiet, Leonard Thompson, Shula Marks and othersoexamines the ways in which the South African past has been recreated and interpreted anew. Contents: Introduction 1; PART I:3 G.M. THEAL; 1 A Canadian becomes South African 9; 2 The making of a settler historian 18; 3 Race and Class 30; 4 Racial myths and Theal's legacy 36; PART 2:3 W.M. MACMILLAN AND C.W. DE KIEWIET; 5 Macmillan: the South African years, and after 47; 6 The revisionist historian 62; 7 De Kiewiet: from Johannesburg to America 76; 8 The master historian 81; 9 Race, class, and liberal history 95; PART 3:3 AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS; 10 Early Africanist work 105; 11 Walker and other historians of the 1930s and 1940s; 12 Historians of the 1940s and 1950s 121; 13 Early radical writing 131; PART 4:3 THE LIBERAL AFRICANISTS; 14 The beginnings of liberal Africanism 143; 15 The Oxford History 154; PART 5:3 THE RADICAL CHALLENGE; 16 The challenge begins 165; 17 Class and race, structure and process 177; 18 Changing perspectives 186; Conclusion 192; References 198; Select bibliography 219; Index 235^R
Epistemology · Genealogy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
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Irony as objectivity
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Controversies about capitalism and apartheid in South Africa
Rethinking urban South Africa
Specimens of ‘Bushman’ studies
A Blast from the Past’
First Lessons in South African History
Economic History in South Africa
The Antinomies of a Liberal Identity
Phyllis Lewsen
A Volksvreemde Historian’
History from Below’
Thinking beyond ‘Tribal Traditions’
Is South African Radical Social History Becoming Irrelevant
New Approaches to Africa
The Ornithorhynchus of the Western World’
Arthur Keppel-Jones
The Voortrekkers on Film
Race, class and economic development in South Africa
Harold Wolpe and the labour question
South African History and Urbanization
Lessons from South African Rural Studies during Apartheid Era
Comment nommer les éléments? Les catégories anthropologiques en Afrique du Sud
The 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival
Political Mythology and the Making of Natal's Mfecane
Making the past for South Africa's future
Changing fortunes
Anthropology and Whites in South Africa
Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums
Keynote Address to the 'Life after Thirty' Colloquium
The Ghost of Theal
The Context of Indian Ocean Spatiality
Leveling the playing field” in the contested Territory of the South African past
‘Living by Fluidity’
Rethinking Worlds of Labour
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2023 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |