The Afrikaners: Biography of a People - Couverture souple

Giliomee, Hermann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813930553 ISBN 13 : 9780813930558

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Giliomee Hermann

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. 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.

Revue de presse :

'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

'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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813930553
• ISBN 13: 9780813930558
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 768