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Shaka the Great - SciELO
Historia 54,1, Mei/May 2009, pp 159-179 159 Shaka the Great * Jeff Peires** Among several welcome signs that the gloom and doom which has for too long enveloped South African historiography is finally beginning to lift,1 one ominous portent continues to threaten. As Christopher Saunders recently put it, much of the new work is narrow and specialized and of limited general significance .2 History cannot flourish in the absence of debate, and the louder the debate, the more people are likely to join in. The South African historiographical landscape, however, still resembles that encountered by the British popular historian, Philip Ziegler, when he embarked on his study of the medieval Black Death, rival historians, each established in his fortress of specialized knowledge, waiting to destroy the unwary trespasser.
Historia 54,1, Mei/May 2009, pp 159-179 159 Shaka the Great* Jeff Peires** Among several welcome signs that the gloom and doom which has for too long enveloped South African historiography is finally beginning to lift,1 …
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