The Meta-narratives of South African history

In this seminar, Prof. Robert Ross, Institute for History, Leiden University, will reflect on his experience of editing the Cambridge History of South Africa, the second and final volume of which was published recently. He will discuss the various ways in which historians of South Africa have chosen the plot-lines they have used and thus organized their material. All are essentially politically driven, since in South Africa, history and other social sciences are the continuation of politics by other means.

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