The White Africans : From Colonisation To Liberation
Gerald. L'Ange
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Jonathan Ball Publishers, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (1192 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Description; Title Page; Author's note; Introduction; Preface: The Hinge of Destiny; 1. Sea Of Darkness and Ghosts; 2. Shrinking the World; 3. Bondage Begun; 4. The New Africans; 5. Enter Britannia; 6. Big Wrong-Way River; 7. The Coming of the Swallows; 8. The Fountains of the Nile; 9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Colonialism; 10. The Last Riddle; 11. Power and Pretty Stones; 12. This Magnificent Cake; 13. Best for the Subject Race; 14. The Gate-Crasher; 15. The Imperial Superman; 16 Making the Map; 17. Crescendo; 18. War of the Whites; 19. The Politically Dead. - 20. A Marriage of Convenience21. Trickling In; 22. The Thin White Line; 23. Europe's Drums; 24. Paradise Precarious; 25. The Hunters; 26. In The Sweat of Thy Face; 27. The End Begins; 28. Under Freedom's Flag; 29. Shifting Winds, Rising Tides; 30. Closing the Laager; 31. Influx and Exodus; 32. Pangas in Paradise; 33. Mayhem on the Maghreb; 34. Wind Rising; 35. The Front Line; 36. Paradise Imperilled; 37. Gunfire Growing; 38. The First Domino; 39. The Bridge to Nowhere; 40. Invisible Support; 41. Time Running Out; 42. 'Strangulation With Finesse'; 43. Artifice and Sacrifice. - 44. A Very Wild Thing45. The Climacteric; 46. Putting up with the Polecat; 47. The Buds of Reform; 48. One Man's Rubicon; 49. Peace and War; 50. A Desperate Power; 51. No Pain, No Gain; 52. Sunset on Supremacy; 53. Searching for the Phantom State; 54. Death of the Dinosaur; 55. Chimurenga; 56. As Junior Partners; 57. A Gap Unbridged; 58. Freedom's Fruits; 59. For Better or for Worse?; 60. Mother Africa; Select Bibliography; Chronology; Preface: The Hinge of Destiny; Photo Section; Copyright Page. - The negotiated transfer of power in apartheid South Africa was the last act in the dismantling of white supremacy on the African continent. While opening a new era for the whites in Africa, it closed an earlier one that contains some of the most colourful episodes in world history. In The White Africans, South African journalist and writer Gerald L'Ange gives a warts-and-all account of the European experience in Africa, from the explorations of the 15th-century Portuguese mariners to the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela in 1994. The story is traced through the Europeans' ex
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| ISBN | 1868422194
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