With walls as thick as parts of the Maginot Line, and ambushments that would do credit to a medieval fortress, this South African national museum would serve equally as well as a defensive outpost. To see the Voortrekker monument in Pretoria is to recognize at once that it was built to humble the observer. Asserting that the dominant peoples of these three nations have based their cultural identity on belief in a direct covenant or contract with an all-powerful, all-knowing God, Akenson vividly chronicles the profound effects of this conviction on each nation's tempestuous history. He suggests that developments in Northern Ireland and South Africa since the seventeenth century - and in Israel during the twentieth - must be understood in relation to events that occurred four millennia ago. In this original and unsettling book, Donald Akenson brings to light critical similarities among three politically troubled nations. ![]()
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