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The Afrikaners : biography of a people / Hermann Giliomee.
LIBRA DT1768.A57 G55 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-
- Series:
- Reconsiderations in southern African history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afrikaners--History.
- Afrikaners.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press ; Cape Town : Tafelberg, [2003]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [667]-686) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813922372
- OCLC:
- 51726888
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