Humble beginnings -- Company burghers -- Fractious frontiersmen -- Masters, slaves, and servants : the fear of gelykstelling -- The eastern frontier cauldron -- Settling in the deep interior -- The queen's Afrikaners -- The crucible of war -- The quest for a "white man's country" -- Wretched folk, ready for any mischief : poor whites and militant workers -- To stop being agterryers : the assertion of a new Afrikaner identity -- Fusion and war -- The making of a radical survival plan -- Apartheid -- Holding the fort -- Surrender without defeat -- A new South Africa.