| Description |
415 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Gold mining industry in the Transvaal 1886-99 / Peter Richardson and Jean Jacques Van-Helten -- British imperial policy and South Africa 1895-9 / Andrew N. Porter -- Military aspects of the war / Howard Bailes -- Life on commando / Fransjohan Pretorius -- Tommy Atkins in South Africa / William Nasson -- Siege of Mafeking / Brian Willan -- Women and the war / S.B. Spies -- Black people and the war / Peter Warwick -- British society and the war / M.D. Blanch -- Pro-Boers in Britain / Bernard Porter -- Collaborators in Boer society / Albert Grundlingh -- Anglican church during the war / Margaret Blunden -- Poetry of the war / Malvern van Wyk Smith -- United States and the war / Henry S. Wilson -- Reconstruction in the Transvaal / S.E. Katzenellenbogen -- British imperial policy and South Africa 1906-10 / Ronald Hyam -- Afrikaner nationalism 1902-14 / Irving Hexham |
| Summary |
The South African War 1899-1902 (variously known as the Anglo-Boer, or to Afrikaners as the English War, die Engelseoorlog, or the Second War of Freedom, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog) continues to generate considerable interest among authors and readers alike, fascinated by a conflict that embodied human drama, tragedy, heroism and military and political folly on a grand scale |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 404-407 |
| Subject |
South African War, 1899-1902.
|
| Author |
Warwick, Peter, 1952-
|
| LC no. |
81124692 |
| ISBN |
058278526X |
|
