The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Reconsiderations in Southern African History) - Softcover

Giliomee, Hermann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813930553 ISBN 13: 9780813930558

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Afrikaners: Biography of A People, the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on―and critical of―the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author’s own research and interviews conducted with leading political actors. Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and interpretation to create a highly readable narrative history of the Afrikaners.

The revised and expanded edition also offers a fresh contextualization of apartheid, its paradoxes and its complex effects, and of the increasingly fraught relationship between the ANC government and the powerless Afrikaner minority. Giliomee revises current orthodoxies on white supremacy in South Africa in important ways. The result is not only a magisterial history of the Afrikaner people, but also a fuller understanding of that history, which for good or ill resonates far beyond the borders of South Africa

Reconsiderations in Southern African History

About this title

About the Author:

Hermann Giliomee, Extraordinary Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch, has written or edited thirteen books, including The Shaping of South African Society; From Apartheid to Nation-Building; The Elusive Search for Peace: South Africa, Israel and Northern Ireland; and The Awkward Embrace: One Party Domination and Democracy in Industrialising Countries. He has been a regular columnist in South African newspapers for the past twenty years, and is the leading authority on Afrikaner history.

Review:

A stunning achievement.

(Athol Fugard)

A book to welcome... it includes an account of the origins and demise of apartheid that must rank as the most sober, objective and comprehensive we have.

(J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813930553
• ISBN 13: 9780813930558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768