The Afrikaners : biography of a people /

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Author / Creator:Giliomee, Hermann, 1938-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Cape Town, South Africa : Tafelberg ; Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2003.
Description:xix, 698 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4958782
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ISBN:062403884X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [667]-686) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Humble Beginnings
  • 2. Company Burghers
  • 3. Fractious Frontiersmen
  • 4. Masters, Slaves and Servants: The Fear of Gelykstelling
  • 5. The Eastern Frontier Cauldron
  • 6. Settling in the Deep Interior
  • 7. The Queen's Afrikaners
  • 8. The Crucible of War
  • 9. The Quest for a 'White Man's Country'
  • 10. 'Wretched folk, ready for any mischief': Poor Whites and Militant Workers
  • 11. 'To stop being agterryers': The Assertion of a New Afrikaner Identity
  • 12. Fusion and War
  • 13. The Making of a Radical Survival Plan
  • 14. Apartheid
  • 15. Holding the Fort
  • 16. Surrender Without Defeat
  • 17. A New South Africa
  • Bibliography
  • Index