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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Giliomee, Hermann Buhr, 1938- Afrikaners. Cape Town, South Africa : Tafelberg ; Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)805998298 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hermann Giliomee |
ISBN: | 062403884X 9780624038849 0813922372 9780813922379 1850657149 9781850657149 |
OCLC Number: | 223783078 |
Description: | xix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Humble beginnings -- Company burghers -- Fractious frontiersmen -- Masters, slaves, and servants : the fear of gelykstelling -- The eastern frontier cauldron -- Settling in the deep interior -- The queen's Afrikaners -- The crucible of war -- The quest for a "white man's country" -- Wretched folk, ready for any mischief : poor whites and militant workers -- To stop being agterryers : the assertion of a new Afrikaner identity -- Fusion and war -- The making of a radical survival plan -- Apartheid -- Holding the fort -- Surrender without defeat -- A new South Africa. |
Responsibility: | Hermann Giliomee. |
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"A book to welcome-a history of the Afrikaners from the first European settlement to the present day written by a proud and even patriotic Afrikaner which is nevertheless critical in its approach and untainted by Afrikaner nationalism. It includes an account of the origins and demise of apartheid that must rank as the most sober, objective and comprehensive we have." -J.M. Coetzee "A strong historian at the peak of his powers ... Real historical truth always lies concealed in the thickets of contradiction, irony and paradox. To flush it from where it skulks amidst the shadows of competing interpretations of racially-based nationalisms requires truth-tellers rather than praise-singers; honest historians who tread with the greatest of care, with the sharpest of eyes, the keenest of hearing. For the genuinely curious - those who wish to see the species rather than the spectre - there can be no more experienced or honest guide than Hermann Giliomee." Charles van Onselen "The Afrikaners is all that we have come to expect from him: authoritative, original, well written and full of insights, many of them causing one to ponder not just the might-have-beens of South African history but the difficulties of democratic transition elsewhere in the world too. At a time when much writing about South Africa is either wishful, ideological or both - and when many intellectuals have decided to keep their heads well down, Giliomee is level-headed, independent minded and wholly unafraid to take on even the most difficult questions." R.W. Johnson'a magisterial new study.' -The Economist Read more...

