Writing a wider war : rethinking gender, race, and identity in the South African War, 1899-1902 / edited by Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundlingh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cuthbertson, Gregor.

Grundlingh, A. M., 1948-

Suttie, Mary-Lynn, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African War, 1899-1902--Historiography.

South African War, 1899-1902.

South African War, 1899-1902--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xix, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press ; Cape Town : David Philip, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The War One Hundred Years On / Bill Nasson 3

Chapter 2 The National Women's Monument: The Making and Mutation of Meaning in Afrikaner Memory of the South African War / Albert Grundlingh 18

Chapter 3 Gentlemen and Boers: Afrikaner Nationalism, Gender, and Colonial Warfare in the South African War / Helen Bradford 37

Chapter 4 Afrikaner Nationalism and the Burgher on Commando / Fransjohan Pretorius 67

Chapter 5 The Role of the Bakgatla of the Pilanesberg in the South African War / Bernard Mbenga 85

Chapter 6 "Loyalty Its Own Reward": The South African War Experience of Natal's "Loyal" Africans / John Lambert 115

Chapter 7 The Role of the EmaSwati in the South African War / Manelisi Genge 136

Chapter 8 British Nursing and the South African War / Shula Marks 159

Chapter 9 Women and Disease: The Clash of Medical Cultures in the Concentration Camps of the South African War / Elizabeth Van Heyningen 186

Chapter 10 The Politics of War: Lord Kitchener and the Settlement of the South African War, 1901-1902 / Keith Surridge 213

Chapter 11 Hobson's The War in South Africa: A Reassessment / Alan Jeeves 233

Chapter 12 The Jewish War: Anglo-Jewry and the South African War / Richard Mendelsohn 247

Chapter 13 Taming the God of Battles: Secular and Moral Critiques of the South African War / David Nash 266

Chapter 14 The South African War and Imperial Britain: A Question of Significance? / Andrew Porter 287

Chapter 15 Imperial Propaganda during the South African War / Andrew Thompson 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821414623

0821414631

0864866070

OCLC:

50253244