An African Volk

The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvJamie Miller,University of Pittsburgh) Miller, Jamie (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History

1 479 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Häftad

539 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy. Drawing upon archival research across Southern Africa and beyond, as well as interviews with leaders of the apartheid order, Jamie Miller shows how the white power structure attempted to turn the new political climate to its advantage. Instead of simply resisting decolonization and African nationalism in the name of white supremacy, the regime looked to co-opt and invert the norms of the new global era to promote a fresh ideological basis for its rule. It adapted discourses of nativist identity, African anti-colonialism, economic development, anti-communism, and state sovereignty to rearticulate what it meant to be African. An African Volk details both the global and local repercussions. At the dawn of the 1970s, the apartheid state reached out eagerly to independent Africa in an effort to reject the mantle of colonialism and redefine the white polity as a full part of the post-colonial world. This outreach both reflected and fuelled heated debates within white society, exposing a deeply divided polity in the midst of profound economic, cultural, and social change. Situated at the nexus of African, decolonization, and Cold War history, An African Volk takes readers into the corridors of white power to detail the apartheid regime's campaign to break out of isolation and secure global acceptance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-11-17
Mått163 x 239 x 33 mm
Vikt794 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor462
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190274832

Tillhör följande kategorier

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Afrikaans TermsTerminology IntroductionPart I: From Control to OpportunityCh 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 CrisisCh 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 ReconstructionCh 8 A New Roadmap: The Development of Total Strategy Ch 9 "If you say change, I'll say I can't": A New VisionConclusionNote on Sources Archival AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

Jamie Miller's An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and the Search for Survival is the first in-depth study, based on primary sources, of Vorster's efforts to secure for South Africa a better image in the international community and attract allies in the independent African states in Southern Africa. Miller tells this entire story with great aplomb. His book is in my view the most outstanding debut of an historian of South Africa that has appeared in the last thirty to forty years....With An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and its Search for Survival Miller has made a seminal contribution to both Cold War history and to the study of the crucial stages of the transition to black rule in Southern Africa.