The Afrikaners
Subtitle: biography of a people
By: Hermann Giliomee.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Reconsiderations in southern African history
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; Tafelberg Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Charlottesville; Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 698
Subjects: Afrikaners -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [667]-686) and index.
Table of contents: title: Humble beginnings; title: Company burghers; title: Fractious frontiersmen; title: Masters, slaves, and servants : the fear of gelykstelling; title: The eastern frontier cauldron; title: Settling in the deep interior; title: The queen's Afrikaners; title: The crucible of war; title: The quest for a "white man's country"; title: Wretched folk, ready for any mischief : poor whites and militant workers; title: To stop being agterryers : the assertion of a new Afrikaner identity; title: Fusion and war; title: The making of a radical survival plan; title: Apartheid; title: Holding the fort; title: Surrender without defeat; title: A new South Africa.