The Afrikaners
biography of a people
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2003 - University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia
Language
English
Word Count
174,500 words, Guess
Page Count
698 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3672361M
- ISBN-100813922372
- OCLC Control Number51726888
- OCLC Control Number223783078
- OCLC Control Numberafrikanersbiogra0000gili
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003003559
- LibraryThing68757
- Goodreads830267
Classifications
- DDC968/.0043936
- LCCDT1768.A57 G55 2003
Description
"Historian and political analyst Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and historical interpretation to create a narrative history of the Afrikaners from their beginnings with the colonization of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the dismantling of apartheid and beyond. Throughout their history, Giliomee's Afrikaners are both colonizers and colonized. Actual or virtual servants of the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch 'burghers' nonetheless owned slaves and commanded servant labor." "While documenting - and in important ways revising - the history of the Afrikaners' pursuit of racial domination (as well as British contributions to that enterprise), Giliomee supplies Afrikaners' own, often divided perspectives on their history."--Jacket.
Subjects
Places
Series Statement
- Reconsiderations in southern African history
Other Editions
- The Afrikaners: biography of a people
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