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Author Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-

Title The Afrikaners : biography of a people / Hermann Giliomee.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press ; Cape Town, South Africa : Tafelberg Publishers, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DT1768.A57 G55 2003    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Reconsiderations in southern African history
Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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.
Afrikaners.
History.
ISBN 0813922372 paperback University of Virginia Press
062403884X paperback Tafelberg Publishers