Includes bibliographic references and index.

Contents: Chapter 1. History in the new South Africa : An introducti on / Hans Erik Stolten -- Part 1. THE ROLE OF HISTORY IN THE CREATION O F A NEW SOUTH AFRICA. Chapter 2. Thoughts on South Africa : Some prel iminary ideas / Saul Dubow -- Chapter 3. New nation, new history? Cons tructing the past in post-apartheid South Africa / Colin Bundy -- Chapt er 4. Truth rather than justice? Historical narratives, gender, and pub lic education in South Africa / Elaine Unterhalter -- Chapter 5. Claimi ng land and making memory : Engaging with the past in land restitution / Anna Bohlin -- Chapter 6 . Reflections on practising applied history in South Africa, 1994-2002: From skeletons to schools / Martin Legassic k -- Chapter 7. From apartheid to democracy in South Africa : A reading of dominant discourses of democratic transition / Thiven Reddy -- Part 2. THE HANDLING OF HERITAGE AND THE POPULARISING OF MEMORY. Chapter 8 . The politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa / Gary Baines -- Chapter 9 . The transformation of heritage in the new South A frica / Christopher Saunders -- Chapter 10. Reframing remembrance : The politics of the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 18 99-1902 / Albert Grundlingh -- Chapter 11. Structure of memory : Aparth eid in the museum / Georgi Verbeeck -- Chapter 12. Building the "new So uth Africa" : Urban space, architectural design, and the disruption of historical memory / Martin Murray. Part 3. INTERPRETATIONS OF SOUTH AFR ICAN HISTORY. Chapter 13. Whose memory - whose history? The illusion of liberal and radical historical debates / Bernhard Makhosezwe Magubane -- Chapter 14. Four decades of South African academic historical writin g : A personal perspective / Christopher Saunders -- Chapter 15. The ro le of business under apartheid : Revisiting the debate / Merle Lipton - - Chapter 16. Afrikaner anti-communist history production in South Afri can historiography / Wessel Visser -- Chapter 17. "1922 and all that" : Facts and the writing of South African political history / Allison Dre w -- Chapter 18. A useable past : The search for "history in chords" / Catherine Burns