Historian: An Autobiography

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Notes

1 J.P. Brits, ‘An Afrikaner History for All Times? Hermann Giliomee’s The Afrikaners: Biography of a People’, Kleio, 36 (2004), 46.

2 F.A. Mouton, ‘History, Historians and Autobiography: A South African Case Study’, African Historical Review, 39, 1 (2007), 62.

3 H. Giliomee, Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2020).

4 Mouton, ‘History, Historians and Autobiography’, 61.

5 Brits, ‘An Afrikaner History’, 48. Giliomee defines the Afrikaner in terms of linguistic and cultural affinities. Afrikaans-speaking Coloureds are treated with sympathy but as a separate community.

6 P.J. Furlong, Between Crown and Swastika: The Impact of the Radical Right on the Afrikaner Nationalist Movement in the Fascist Era (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1991).

7 M. Shain, A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa 1930–1948 (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015), 295.

8 J. Aurell, Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (New York: Routledge, 2016), 263–264.

9 Aurell, Theoretical Perspectives, 264.