Outsider's Perspectives in Dutch Biography:The Year in the Netherlands

In her contribution to the edited volume The Biographical Turn: Lives in History, South African researcher Lindie Koorts introduces Herman Giliomee’s The Afrikaners: Biography of a People as “arguably the most influential contribution to post-1994 Afrikaner historiography” (150). The selection of “prominent individuals” who were honored with a short biography in this book was not based upon a canon of Afrikaner heroes but on a political theory outlined by the American scholar Michael Walzer. Walzer describes the “connected critic” as the individual who is bound to his community, although obser... Mehr ...