"The Afrikaners: Biography of APeople, " the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner peoplebased on -- and critical of -- the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author'sown research and interviews conducted with leading political actors. HermannGiliomee weaves together life stories and interpretation to create a highly readablenarrative history of the Afrikaners.The revised and expandededition also offers a fresh contextualization of apartheid, its paradoxes and itscomplex effects, and of the increasingly fraught relationship between the ANCgovernment and the powerless Afrikaner minority. Giliomee revises currentorthodoxies on white supremacy in South Africa in important ways. The result is notonly a magisterial history of the Afrikaner people, but also a fuller understandingof that history, which for good or ill resonates far beyond the borders of SouthAfricaReconsiderations in Southern AfricanHistory