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The Last Afrikaner Leaders : A Supreme Test of Power.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconsiderations in Southern African History SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (448 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813934952
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Last Afrikaner LeadersDDC classification:
  • 320.968
LOC classification:
  • JQ1998.N2 -- G55 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front -- Contents -- Contents -- A Tragic Dilemma -- An Extraordinary Country -- An Extraordinary Professor and the 'Cape Nats' -- 'The Most Terrific Clash of Interests Imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's Response -- Denying Black South Africans Citizenship: John Vorster's Empire -- Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's Foreign Schemes -- PW Botha and 'Power Sharing without Losing Control' -- A Crossing Suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon -- Van Zyl Slabbert: The Golden Boy and the Black Prince -- 'The Risk of Not Taking Risks': Ending Empire -- Time for a 'Quantum Leap': FW de Klerk's Venture -- 'Paddling into Dangerous Rapids': Drafting a New Constitution -- A Record of Understanding -- A wary military -- Negotiating the NP out of power -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- About -- Index.
Summary: Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history that attempts not to condemn but to understand why the last Afrikaner leaders did what they did, and why their own policies ultimately failed them. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Reconsiderations in Southern African History.
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Front -- Contents -- Contents -- A Tragic Dilemma -- An Extraordinary Country -- An Extraordinary Professor and the 'Cape Nats' -- 'The Most Terrific Clash of Interests Imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's Response -- Denying Black South Africans Citizenship: John Vorster's Empire -- Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's Foreign Schemes -- PW Botha and 'Power Sharing without Losing Control' -- A Crossing Suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon -- Van Zyl Slabbert: The Golden Boy and the Black Prince -- 'The Risk of Not Taking Risks': Ending Empire -- Time for a 'Quantum Leap': FW de Klerk's Venture -- 'Paddling into Dangerous Rapids': Drafting a New Constitution -- A Record of Understanding -- A wary military -- Negotiating the NP out of power -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- About -- Index.

Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history that attempts not to condemn but to understand why the last Afrikaner leaders did what they did, and why their own policies ultimately failed them. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Reconsiderations in Southern African History.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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