The Mirror at Midnight: A South African JourneyHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007 - 308 pages History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made. |
Table des matières
Summer Folk | 19 |
Laugh Like Weve Been Laughing | 29 |
Place of Weeping | 51 |
Loyal Natives | 79 |
A Balanced View | 94 |
Journey to the North | 100 |
CITY OF GOLD | 109 |
The Play Within the Play | 111 |
Velvet Glove Iron Fist | 192 |
Stormtroopers | 207 |
Shell of the Old Seed of the New | 218 |
A CarpetBombing | 229 |
The Mirror | 237 |
Midnight | 245 |
Journeys End | 259 |
OLD BRICKS NEW BUILDING | 267 |
Johannesburg Notebook | 124 |
The Truth Room | 141 |
Survivors | 158 |
On Trek | 164 |
The Light of Civilization | 177 |
INDEX | 291 |
Bibliography and Acknowledgments | 293 |
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