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South African War, 1899-1902 --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- South African War, 1899-1902 - Congresses.

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The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms of commemoration. For these reasons, the South African War was an important moment of transition in commemorative practice and foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in the aftermath of the Great War. This work provides the first comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in the aftermath of the South African War. The approach goes beyond the simple deconstruction of memorial iconography and, instead, looks at the often tortuous and lengthy gestation of remembrance sites, from the formation of committees to the raising of finance and debates over form. In the process both Edwardian Britain's sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South Africa are thrown into relief. In the concluding sections of the book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites, namely the multi-volume histories produced by the War Office and The Times, and the seminal television documentaries of Kenneth Griffith. Once again the approach goes beyond simple textual deconstruction to place the sources firmly in their wider context by exploring both production and reception. By uncovering the themes and myths that underpinned these interpretations of the war, shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived are revealed.

South African War, 1899-1902. --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- History --- Boer War --- Second Boer War --- South Africa

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The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. This is the first history of the war to focus upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increasingly shaped, but not yet transformed, by mining capital. The ways in which the war influenced the lives and livelihoods of different sections of the black population are studied - from chiefs and newspaper editors to peasant farmers and artisans, to farm tenants and industrial workers. Dr Warwick shows that black people were far more than either spectators to, or passive victims of, a white man's quarrel, and presents a thorough revision of accepted views on the war. He reveals the vital roles performed by black people in both the British and Boer armies, and shows how the regular and irregular participation of blacks exercised an influence upon the course of war.

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The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the campaign to relieve Ladysmith, South Africa, after the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State had gotten a jump on the British Empire and besieged a British army in the town. It was the single bloodiest episode in the campaign, as well as a harbinger of the bitter and desperate fighting still to come in the Second Boer War.Spion Kop, just northeast of Ladysmith, was the largest hill in the region, being over 1,400 feet high, and it lay almost exactly at the center of the Boer line. If the British could capture this position and bring artiller

Spion Kop, Battle of, South Africa, 1900. --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- Spioenkop, Battle of, 1900 --- South African War, 1899-1902 --- Campaigns --- Ladysmith (South Africa) --- Great Britain --- History --- History, Military

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"Oorsprong van de apartheid. Eerste mediaoorlog. Voorproefje van de Eerste en de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De (Anglo)-Boerenoorlog (1899-1902) behoort tot de meest intrigerende conflicten in de moderne geschiedenis. Het verschil in status tussen supermacht Groot-Brittannie ̈en de twee nietige Boerenrepublieken, bewoond door afstammelingen van Nederlandse kolonisten, was bizar groot. Toch moesten de Britten heel ver gaan om de oorlog te winnen, tot en met systematische terreur tegen de burgerbevolking. Martin Bossenbroek, auteur van historische klassiekers als 'Holland op zijn Breedst' en 'De Meelstreep', vertelt het hele verhaal. Hij verplaatst zich in alle partijen en volgt drie kleurrijke hoofdpersonen op de voet: de Nederlandse jurist Willem Leyds, de Engelse oorlogsverslaggever Winston Churchill en de Boerencommando Deneys Reitz. Nooit eerder werd de Boerenoorlog zo compleet en zo beeldend beschreven"--Provided by publisher.

South African war, 1899-1902 --- 968.0.04 --- 968.0.04 Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: 19de en 20ste eeuw--(1814-1909) --- Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: 19de en 20ste eeuw--(1814-1909) --- South African War, 1899-1902 --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- History of Africa --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- South Africa --- Guerre des Boers (1899-1902) --- Guerre des Boers, 1899-1902. --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- 1899-1902.