The Afrikaners: Biography of a People

by Hermann Giliomee

Book Overview

This book is a biography of the Afrikaner people. A historian and journalist who was one of the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner opponents of apartheid, 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. The Afrikaners emphasizes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922372
• ISBN13: 9780813922379
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher