The myth of divine election and Afrikaner ethnogenesis

Myths and Nationhood

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 107-131

  Cauthen, Bruce ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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