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The Afrikaners : An Historical Interpretation Hardcover - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Le May, G. H. L
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title The Afrikaners : An Historical Interpretation
- Author Le May, G. H. L
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Date 1996-01
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11612746-6
- ISBN 9780631182047 / 0631182047
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.15 x 1.08 in (23.44 x 15.62 x 2.74 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern Africa
- Library of Congress subjects South Africa - History, South Africa - Politics and government
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95011584
- Dewey Decimal Code 968
From the rear cover
The book highlights the distinctions between the settled bourgeois Afrikaner of the urbanized western Cape and the traditional Boer farmer of the plateau and examines the tensions within the Afrikaner community as well as its historically troubled relations with others, including Africans, Cape Coloreds and European powers. Showing the Afrikaner through history, the author explains, for instance, the influence of Dutch Calvinist ancestry, the motives behind the Afrikaner resistance to external involvement in their economic development, and, most contentious of all, the appeal of the policy of apartheid as a moral solution to the racial problem in South Africa. In addresssing such issues in a direct and authoritative manner, The Afrikaners brings sharp, historical insight to the complex dynamics within South African society, both in the past and today.