African Volk - The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Where apartheid South Africa's response to decolonisation has usually been seen as one of singular opposition and fear, Dr Miller's account instead tells a story of rich contradiction and nuance. He shows how the Afrikaner elite tried to rearticulate the legitimacy of their system in the new language of decolonisation and then execute ambitious statecraft feats to give this new vision substance. Incisive in its analysis, meticulously researched, and highly original, Dr Miller's work overturns much conventional wisdom in the area and lays down new paths for the study of the apartheid regime in the future.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Miller, Jamie (Postdoctoral Fellow Miller, Miller Jamie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780190055547
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005554-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 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