African Volk - The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival

Zusatztext Jamie Miller's important new book is perhaps the most successful monograph-length attempt to integrate a wide-ranging use of particularly South African, US and Rhodesian sources into a study of Pretoria's foreign policy during John Vorster's tenure as prime minister (196678). Based on a Cambridge PhD, its utilization of archival research, hard to find memoirs, newspapers and interviews makes it worthy of serious consideration ... this is perhaps the most important book written about South African foreign policy in the mid-Cold War era. The archival research, the interviews, and the wide reading in obscure publications will ensure that anyone who has an interest in apartheid and South African foreign policy will need to read this book and engage with its ideas. Informationen zum Autor Jamie Miller is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held fellowships at Yale University and Cornell University. Klappentext An African Volk explores how the apartheid state sought to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a new post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy. Zusammenfassung An African Volk explores how the apartheid state sought to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a new post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Afrikaans Terms Terminology Introduction Part I: From Control to Opportunity Ch 1 'We Are Not Europeans': Ideology and Identity in Pretoria's Golden Age Ch 2 Into Africa: The Outward Policy Ch 3 'We Must Stay Prepared': Reimagining the White Redoubt Ch 4 In Search of Détente: Negotiating a Transfer of Power in Rhodesia Part II: From Challenge to Crisis Ch 5 Mission Creep: South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War Ch 6 The Post Mortem: Lessons from Angola Ch 7 Dr. Kissinger, I Presume?: The 1976 Initiatives Part III: From Collapse to Reconstruction Ch 8 A New Roadmap: The Development of Total Strategy Ch 9 "If you say change, I'll say I can't": A New Vision Conclusion Note on Sources Archival Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Miller, Jamie (Postdoctoral Fellow Miller, Miller Jamie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9780190274832
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027483-2
• No. of pages: 462
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Political activism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Republic of South Africa, African History, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Political activism / Political engagement