The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa Since the Boer War

ISBN-13: 9780521824538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 396 str.

Ronald Hyam; Peter Henshaw

Opis

This unique account of the "uneasy special relationship" between Britain and South Africa surveys all political, economic, cultural, and geostrategic aspects. Starting from the bruising experience of the South African Boer War, Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw trace the countries' deteriorating relationship through a series of crises to South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth in 1961 and subsequent return, post-apartheid, in 1994.

Recenzje

'… this book is genuinely pioneering in both scope and substance'. International Affairs

Spis treści

Frontispiece; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The uneasy special relationship: dynamics and divergencies; 2. Breakdown: into war, 1895–9; 3. Post-war: the myth of magnanimity, 1905–7; 4. African interests and the South Africa Act, 1908–10; 5. 'Greater South Africa': the struggle for the High Commission Territories, 1910–61; 6. The economic dimension: South Africa and the sterling area, 1931–61; 7. Britain, the United Nations and the 'South African disputes', 1946–61; 8. The political consequences of Seretse Khama and Ruth, 1948–52; 9. Containing Afrikanerdom: the geopolitical origins of the Central African Federation, 1948–53; 10. Strategy and the transfer of Simon's Town, 1948–57; 11. The parting of the ways: the departure of South Africa from the Commonwealth, 1951–61; 12. Enfeebled lion? How South Africans viewed Britain, 1945–61; 13. Springbok reviled: some British reactions to apartheid, 1948–94; Epilogue: the relationship restored: the return of the new South Africa to the Commonwealth, 1994; Select bibliography; Index.