The Future of South African Economic History

Johan Fourie and Stefan Schirmer ()
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Stefan Schirmer: School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand

No 06/2012, Working Papers from Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This note reviews the state and future of South African economic history. We argue that although new techniques, archival sources, international interest and a greater propensity to collaborate within and across disciplines have stimulated new research over the last decade, overcoming our divided methodological and ideological past remains first priority if South African economic history is to make a contribution to future development theory and policy, in South Africa and across the developing world.

Keywords: South Africa; economic history; historians; Apartheid; colonial history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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