Hermann Giliomee and The Shaping of South African Society: Memories of a Collaboration

ABSTRACT

This article reflects on the collaboration between 1973 and 1979 of Hermann Giliomee and Richard Elphick, as well as that between the two of them and other scholars, a process which resulted in the publication of their co-edited study The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1820. It also dwells on reaction to the book, and its revised edition of 1989, which were prescribed texts in many South African universities for over a decade,

Keywords:

• Hermann Giliomee
• The Shaping of South African Society
• South African historiography
• VOC Cape