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The Anxieties of White Supremacy

Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
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Published/Copyright: 2024
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Africa in Global History
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Volume 8 | Africa in Global History

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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.

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Christoph Marx, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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"Marx’s meticulous analysis of Verwoerd’s scientific oeuvre reveals fascinating insights into the politician’s mindset – his notion of an absolute truth that could be established once and for all through scientific means, his dismissal of emotions, and his uncompromising dogmatism" – Julia Tischler (Universität Basel ) in H-Soz-Kult (19.12.2024), https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94648.

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"Dem Autor ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Geschichte der Apartheid gelungen, deren Ursprünge jetzt genauer geklärt werden müssen." – Eberhard Zimmermann in Das Historisch-Politische Buch 71 (2023) 3–4, 490

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Abbreviations

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    Introduction

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    Principles

    21
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    Sharpened Thoughts – Blunted Feelings

    50
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    Trajectories

    84
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    From Sociology to Social Policy

    126
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    Propaganda

    160
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    Organised Unity of the “Volk”

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    Chaos and Order

    222
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    Difference and Purity

    241
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    Apartheid

    271
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    Knowledge and Epistemologies of Ignorance – Justifications of Apartheid from the Human Sciences

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    ‘Homelands’

    347
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    Repression and Control

    394
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    Modernisation

    438
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    The Breath of Death

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    Conclusion

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    Bibliography

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    Literature

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    Name Index

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    Location Index

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    Subject Index

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eBook published on:
November 6, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110787313
Hardcover published on:
November 6, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110787269
Paperback published on:
June 30, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783112214169
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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Front matter:
9
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580
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787313
eBook ISBN: 9783110787313
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110787269
Paperback ISBN: 9783112214169
Keywords for this book
Apartheid; racism; history of ideas; international relations; decolonization
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scholars and graduate students interested in African history, colonial and global history
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