E.H. Carr said: Before you study the history, study the historian. Written history often tells us more about the historian s own times than it does of the times about which he is writing. The historians and the way in which each generation has rewritten history in the light of its own preoccupations is the subject of "The Changing Past." This is the first book-length survey in English that covers all the main trends in South African historiography. Starting with the first documents and histories, it goes on to trace the 19th century. British and settler schools, Afrikaans historiography...