The South African War reappraised / edited by Donal Lowry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowry, Donal, Author.

Contributor:

Lowry, Donal.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England).

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African War, 1899-1902.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

MSI edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The neo-classical troopers' memorial of New Zealand, together with others around the former British Empire, illustrates the manner in which the South African War became a major imperial. This book explores how South Africa is negotiating its past in and through various modes of performance in contemporary theatre, public events and memorial spaces. Opinion on the war was as divided among white Afrikaners, Africans, 'Coloureds' and English-speaking white South Africans as these communities were from each other. The book analyses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as a live event and as an archive asking throughout how the TRC has affected the definition of identity and memory in contemporary South Africa, including disavowed memories. It surveys a century of controversy surrounding the origins of the war and in particular the argument that gold shaped British policy towards the Transvaal in the drift towards war. The remarkable South African career of Flora Shaw, the first woman to gain a professional position on The Times, is portrayed in the book. The book also examines the expensive operation mounted by The Times in order to cover the war. While acknowledging the need not to overstress the role of personality, the book echoes J. A. S. Grenville in describing the combination of Milner and Chamberlain as a 'fateful partnership'. Current renegotiations of popular repertoires, particularly songs and dances related to the struggle, revivals of classic European and South African protest plays, new history plays and specific racial and ethnic histories and identities, are analysed.

Contents:

General editor's introduction

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction : not just a "teatime war" / Donal Lowry

2. A century of controversy over origins / Iain R. Smith

3. Journalism as active politics : Flora Shaw, The Times and South Africa / Dorothy O. Helly & Helen Callaway

4. The Times at War, 1899-1902 / Jacqueline Beaumont

5. "Intermediate" imperialism and the test of Empire : Milner's "excentric" High Commission in South Africa / John Benyon

6. Boer attitudes to Africans in wartime / Fransjohan Pretorius

7. The Cape Afrikaners and the British Empire from the Jameson Raid to the South African War / Mordechai Tamarkin

8. African attitudes to Britain and the Empire before and after the South African War / Christopher Saunders

9. "Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out?" : the South African War, Empire and India / Balasubramanyam Chandramohan

10. Pricking the "nonconformist conscience" : religion against the South African War / Greg Cuthbertson

11. Kruger's farmers, Strathcona's horse, Sir George Clarke's camels and the Kaiser's battleships : the impact of the South African War on imperial defence / Keith Jeffery

12. "The Boers were the beginning of the end"? : the wider impact of the South African War / Donal Lowry

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-5261-2153-0

OCLC:

1507882007