| Description |
376 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents: Chapter 1. History in the new South Africa : An introduction / Hans Erik Stolten -- Part 1. THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN THE CREATION OF A NEW SOUTH AFRICA. Chapter 2. Thoughts on South Africa : Some preliminary ideas / Saul Dubow -- Chapter 3. New nation, new history? Constructing the past in post-apartheid South Africa / Colin Bundy -- Chapter 4. Truth rather than justice? Historical narratives, gender, and public education in South Africa / Elaine Unterhalter -- Chapter 5. Claiming land and making memory : Engaging with the past in land restitution / Anna Bohlin -- Chapter 6 . Reflections on practising applied history in South Africa, 1994-2002: From skeletons to schools / Martin Legassick -- Chapter 7. From apartheid to democracy in South Africa : A reading of dominant discourses of democratic transition / Thiven Reddy -- Part 2. THE HANDLING OF HERITAGE AND THE POPULARISING OF MEMORY. Chapter 8 . The politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa / Gary Baines -- Chapter 9 . The transformation of heritage in the new South Africa / Christopher Saunders -- Chapter 10. Reframing remembrance : The politics of the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902 / Albert Grundlingh -- Chapter 11. Structure of memory : Apartheid in the museum / Georgi Verbeeck -- Chapter 12. Building the "new South Africa" : Urban space, architectural design, and the disruption of historical memory / Martin Murray. Part 3. INTERPRETATIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY. Chapter 13. Whose memory - whose history? The illusion of liberal and radical historical debates / Bernhard Makhosezwe Magubane -- Chapter 14. Four decades of South African academic historical writing : A personal perspective / Christopher Saunders -- Chapter 15. The role of business under apartheid : Revisiting the debate / Merle Lipton -- Chapter 16. Afrikaner anti-communist history production in South African historiography / Wessel Visser -- Chapter 17. "1922 and all that" : Facts and the writing of South African political history / Allison Drew -- Chapter 18. A useable past : The search for "history in chords" / Catherine Burns |
| Subject |
South Africa -- Historiography.
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South Africa. |
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Historiography. |
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Collective memory -- South Africa.
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Collective memory. |
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Political culture -- South Africa.
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Political culture. |
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Geschiedschrijving. |
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Politieke verandering. |
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Sociale verandering. |
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Natievorming. |
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Apartheid. |
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Zuid-Afrika. |
| Added Author |
Stolten, Hans Erik.
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| ISBN |
9789171065810 paperback |
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9171065814 paperback |
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