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OverviewThe 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. This revised and expanded edition also offers a fresh contextualisation 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hermann GiliomeePublisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Edition: 2nd Revised edition ISBN: 9781849041485ISBN 10: 1849041482 Pages: 700 Publication Date: 13 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'Magisterial... The strength of the book lies in [Giliomee's] distillation of a lifetime's research and reflection into a single prodigious volume.' - The Economist '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 'This crowning work by one of South Africa's most prominent social scientists is likely to become a baseline for interpreting Afrikaner history for a long time to come.' - Foreign Affairs Author InformationHERMANN 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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