An African Volk

An African Volk explores how the apartheid state sought to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a new post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy.

Jamie Miller is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held fellowships at Yale University and Cornell University.

- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Afrikaans Terms
- Terminology
- Introduction
- Part I: From Control to Opportunity
- Ch 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 Crisis
- Ch 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 Reconstruction
- Ch 8 A New Roadmap: The Development of Total Strategy
- Ch 9 "If you say change, I'll say I can't": A New Vision
- Conclusion
- Note on Sources
- Archival Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index