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The last Afrikaner leaders : a supreme test of power / Hermann Giliomee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-
- Series:
- Reconsiderations in Southern African History
- Reconsiderations in southern African history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politicians--South Africa--20th century.
- Politicians.
- Apartheid--South Africa--20th century.
- Apartheid.
- Power (Social sciences)--South Africa.
- Power (Social sciences).
- South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--20th century--Political aspects--History.
- National Party (South Africa)--History--20th century.
- National Party (South Africa).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Edition:
- First University of Virginia Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history that attempts not to condemn but to understand why the last Afrikaner leaders did what they did, and why their own policies ultimately failed them. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Reconsiderations in Southern African History.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a tragic dilemma
- An extraordinary country
- An extraordinary professor and the 'Cape Nats'
- "The most terrific clash of interests imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's response
- Denying Blacks South Africans citizenship: John Vorster's empire
- Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's foreign schemes
- PW Botha and 'power sharing without losing control'
- A crossing suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon
- Van Zyl Slabbert: the golden boy and the black prince
- 'The risk of not taking risks': ending empire
- Time for a 'quantum leap': FW de Klerk's venture
- 'Paddling into dangerous rapids': drafting a new constitution
- A record of understanding
- A wary military
- Negotiating the NP out of power.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813934952
- 0813934958
- OCLC:
- 879632465
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