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The Afrikaners : biography of a people
- Title
- The Afrikaners : biography of a people / Hermann Giliomee.
- Author
- Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press ; Cape Town, South Africa : Tafelberg Publishers, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DT1768.A57 G55 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Historian and political analyst Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and historical interpretation to create a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond. Throughout their history, Giliomee's Afrikaners are both colonizers and colonized. Actual or virtual servants of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch 'burghers' nonetheless owned slaves and commanded servant labor."
- "While documenting - and in important ways revising - the history of the Afrikaners' pursuit of racial domination (as well as British contributions to that enterprise), Giliomee supplies Afrikaners' own, often divided perspectives on their history."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Reconsiderations in southern African history
- Uniform Title
- Reconsiderations in southern African history
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [667]-686) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0813922372
- 9780813922379
- 062403884X
- 9780624038849
- LCCN
- 2003003559
- OCLC
- ocm51726888
- 51726888
- SCSB-8933591
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library