Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Reconsiderations in southern African history
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Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
Subject |
Afrikaners -- History.
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Afrikaners. |
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History. |
ISBN |
0813922372 paperback University of Virginia Press |
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062403884X paperback Tafelberg Publishers |
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