Impact of the South African War

ISBN-13: 9780333776995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 313 str.

David E. Omissi; Andrew S. Thompson

Opis

This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.

Recenzje

'This volume is a must for the South Africa specialist's collection and will be of interest to many others besides.' - Andrew Porter, King's College, London, South African Historical Journal

'...a stimulating work, empirically-rooted, balanced, often ground-breaking, and essential reading for anyone wanting some solid facts and thinking about the effects of the South African war.' - Bernard Porter, English Historical Review

'...makes a compelling case that understanding the war's effects means looking beyond contemporaries' assessments...' - Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

Spis treści

Preface List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Investigating the Impact of the War; D.Omissi & A.Thompson PART I: THE SOUTH AFRICAN IMPACT The War in Twentieth-Century Afrikaner Consciousness; A.Grundlingh Black Communities in the Cape and Natal; B.Nasson Capitalism and the War; I.Smith Imagining the New South Africa in the Era of Reconstruction; S.Dubow PART II: THE BRITISH IMPACT Propaganda, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War; A.Thompson The Making of a War Correspondent: Lionel James of The Times : J.Beaumont The British Peace Movement and the War; P.Laity Preaching Imperialism: Weslyan Methodism and the War; G.Cuthbertson British Radicalism, the South African Crisis, and the Origins of the Theory of Financial Imperialism; P.Cain 'National Efficiency' and the 'Lessons' of the War; G.Searle PART III: THE IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire; D.Omissi Canada; P.Buckner Building Nations: Australia and New Zealand; L.Trainor 'The World's No Bigger than a Kraal': The War and International Opinion in the First Age of 'Globalization': D.Lowry Afterword: The Imprint of the War; J.Darwin

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JACQUELINE BEAUMONT Freelance Researcher, Oxford PHILIP BUCKNER Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London PETER CAIN Research Professor, Sheffield Hallam University GREG CUTHBERTSON Associate Professor of History, University of South Africa JOHN DARWIN Beit Lecturer, History of the British Commonwealth, Nuffield College, Oxford SAUL DUBOW Reader in History, School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex ALBERT GRUNDLINGH Professor of History, University of Stellenbosch PAUL LAITY Senior Editor, London Review of Books DONAL LOWRY Senior Lecturer in History, Oxford Brookes University BILL NASSON Professor of History, University of Cape Town GEOFFREY SEARLE Professor of History, University of East Anglia IAIN SMITH Senior Lecturer in History, University of Warwick LUKE TRAINOR Researcher