1st Edition

The Last Trek A Study of the Boer People and the Afrikaner Nation

By Sheila Patterson Copyright 2004
    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book evaluates the historical factors that produced the Boer people, and the political, religious and economic forces that maintain modern Afrikaner Nationalism. This last trek brings the Afrikaner back into multi-racial integrating industrial society.
    Originally published in 1957.

    Part 1: The Past 1. Genesis, exodus and Chronicles 2. the Birth of a Language Part 2: The Present Demographic Note 3. Nation and Party 4. The Lean Years and the Fat Years 5. The Chosen People 6. Upbringing and Education 7. Social Structure and Cultural Life 8. Boers and Afrikaners Part 3: Into the Future 9. Has the Afrikaner a Future?

    Biography

    SHEILA PATTERSON