Research Catalog

Title

The mirror at midnight : a South African journey / Adam Hochschild.

Author

Hochschild, Adam.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

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Details

Description

x, 308 p. : map; 21 cm.

Subject

• Afrikaners > Race identity
• Blood River, Battle of, South Africa, 1838 > Anniversaries, etc
• Hochschild, Adam > Travel > South Africa
• South Africa > Description and travel
• South Africa > History > 20th century
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1989-1994
• South Africa > Social conditions > 1961-1994

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published: New York : Viking, 1990. With new preface and epilogue.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: Promised land -- Summer folk -- "Laugh like we've been laughing" -- Place of weeping -- "A balnaced view" == Journey to the North -- Part two: City of Gold -- The play within the play -- Johannesburg notebook -- The truth room -- Survivors -- On trek -- "The light of civilization" -- Velvert glove, iron fist -- Stormtroopers -- Shell of the ld, seed of the new -- A carpet-bombing -- The mirror -- Midnight -- Journey's end -- Epilogue: old brick, new building.

ISBN

• 9780618758258
• 0618758259

LCCN

^^2006103110

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library