The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, expanded and updated edition by Giliomee, Hermann
The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, expanded and updated edition by Giliomee, Hermann
Softcover, ISBN 9780624048237
Publisher: NB Publishers, U.S.A., 2012 Second Impression.
Used – Near Fine. This book is in a mint condition. The picture laminated cover has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
"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
The bestselling narrative history of a group often despised, but never before so well understood. Hermann Giliomee tells their dramatic and compelling story of contradictory leanings towards freedom and oppression in highly readable narrative. He also examines the divergent reactions of Afrikaners to President Zuma and his attempts to woo them. The bestselling narrative history of a group often despised, but never before so well understood. Hermann Giliomee tells their dramatic and compelling story - of contradictory leanings towards freedom and oppression - in highly readable narrative. Revised and updated, this new edition includes a chapter on the often fraught relationship between Afrikaners and the ANC in power, with an analysis of why Afrikaners relinquished power so easily, and how they, along with other minorities, are increasingly resisting ANC efforts to undermine the Constitution.
