William Miller Macmillan was a Scottish

Scotland

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 historian

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 who was the leading scholar of the liberal South African historiography

Historiography

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 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

University of the Witwatersrand

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. He was a vocal speaker on colonial matters and frequently wrote about the economics of colonial rule.

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