William Miller Macmillan

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William Miller Macmillan
Residence South Africa, U.K.
Ethnicity Scottish
Fields South African Historiography
Doctoral students J.S Marais
Notable awards Rhodes Scholar

William Miller Macmillan was a Scottish historian who was the leading scholar of the liberal South African historiography that emerged in the 1920s and started diminishing in the 1970s. A Rhodes Scholar, he was a lecturer at Rhodes University College before leaving for the University of the Witwatersrand. [1] He was a vocal speaker on colonial matters and frequently wrote about the economics of colonial rule.

[edit] Works

  • Bantu, Boer, and Briton: The Making of the South African Native Problem. Greenwood Press Reprint. ISBN 0313209065
  • My South African Years. David Phillips Publishers, December 31, 1975. ISBN 0949968420
  • Road to Self-Rule: A Study in Colonial Evolution. ISBN 0836956087
  • Africa Emergent. Faber & Faber, 1935 and Pelican Books

[edit] References

  1. ^ Richard Brown, Reviewed Work(s): Champion of Africa. The Second Phase of the Work of W. M. Macmillan (1934-1974) by Mona MacMillan; W. M. MacMillan, The Journal of African History, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1988), pp. 358-359.