BIBLIORAPHICAL GUIDE TO SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE, 1912-1995

dc.creator	Ian Van der Waag
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:25Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/25-2-260
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c18b745244fd45418ec755e46c565ba6
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8198
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/c18b745244fd45418ec755e46c565ba6
dc.description	<p>Ideally, an historian, if he is to acquit his task, must know the total range and types of sources available to him, in and around the topic of his enquiry. Knowing what his colleagues have published is essential. However, it is hardly possible to compile, and keep up to date, a full bibliography. Selection is both subjective and arbitrary; and a selection of books, articles and manuscripts is no exception.</p> <p>Nonetheless, a serious researcher will attempt to make a survey of all the material, archival and secondary, which may conceivably be relevant to his topic. Geoffrey Elton has described this as "a broadfronted attack upon all the relevant material". This is of primary importance to historical scholarship. First and foremost, it is pointless to duplicate work once all the major issues and questions involved, have already been thrashed out by other historians. It has been said that history is an endless debate. This is true. However, debating historians must have something to say. An historian tackling a hackneyed topic, must either have discovered new evidence or must advance a novel interpretation of existing evidence.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/260
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 25, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	BIBLIORAPHICAL GUIDE TO SECONDARY SOURCES
dc.subject	THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE
dc.subject	historical scholarship
dc.subject	major issues and questions
dc.subject	a full bibliography
dc.subject	subjective and arbitrary
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	BIBLIORAPHICAL GUIDE TO SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE, 1912-1995
dc.type	Article