The Oxford History of South Africa

The publication of the work marked a watershed in the historiography of South Africa by for the first time giving indigenous Africans a central role in the history of the country.

[1] This began to change in the 1970s as South African historians were exposed to new ways of working in foreign universities, particularly in Shula Marks's London history seminar.

[2] The publication of the two volumes has been described as a watershed in South African historiography as the first work to devote a significant amount of space to the indigenous African population and, in the first volume, as much space to blacks as whites.

The fact that it broke new ground made it controversial but it helped to foster new research in the area.

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