Author : Iain R. Smith
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Tracing the roots of the conflict into the first half of the nineteenth century, Dr. Smith shows how the conflict between Britain and the Transvaal republic intensified after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886. The resulting wealth and the influx of foreign, mainly British, Uitlanders transformed what had been a poor land-locked Boer republic into the hub round which the future of South Africa was to turn.
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1999-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780340614273
The South African War rounded off the British conquest of Southern Africa. Only now, a hundred years later, are some of the more baleful legacies of the war being addressed. This new history is an up-to-date account of the military struggle in South Africa including the whole web of miscalculations and shattered illusions that surrounded it which spread far beyond the battlefields.
Author : Peter Warwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521272247
This book focuses 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.
Author : Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9089644121
Tussen 1899 en 1902 woedde in Zuid-Afrika een oorlog tussen de Boerenrepublieken en het Britse Rijk. Veel Nederlanders steunden in die tijd de Boeren. Dit uitte zich in een vloedgolf aan propagandamateriaal om een tegenwicht te bieden aan de Britse berichtgeving over de oorlog. Dit boek bevat een grondige analyse van de Nederlandse pro-Boeren-beweging vanaf haar begin in de jaren 1880. Kuitenbrouwer gaat in op de organisaties die de banden tussen Nederland en Zuid-Afrika trachtten aan te halen en zo belangrijke knooppunten werden in een internationaal netwerk. Aan de hand van bronnenmateriaal toont de auteur aan dat de propagandacampagne voor de Boeren nog lang nagalmde in de twintigste eeuw.0.
Author : G. D. Scholtz
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 9781919825120
This concise history of the Anglo-Boer War, a prize-winning work which was originally written in Afrikaans, is the ideal book for those who want an overview of the military fortunes of the two warring parties. Now richly provided with maps and illustrations, it is one of the most accurate short histories of this important three-year war. The author, G. D. Scholtz, was a Afrikaner historian of great stature, who saw the Anglo-Boer War as a struggle for liberation, a fight for Boer freedom and independence. His original text has been sensitively translated into English by historian Bridget Theron, who is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. It is an accessible work that may provide echoes to the American wars of independence.
Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810171
Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as 'the graveyard of many a soldier's reputation'.
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : NB Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2010
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
ISBN : 9780624048091
Explores how the Anglo-Boer War shaped South Africa s future and how it has come to be remembered in a post-apartheid South Africa.
Author : Carman Miller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0773517502
A detailed account of Canadian involvement in South Africa's Anglo-Boer War and the impact it had on the country during the years 1899-1902 and beyond. Includes a few bandw photographs. Canadian card order no. C92-090380-0. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Craig Wilcox
Publisher : Craig WIlcox
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but tells the stories of individuals including Breaker Morant, Alexander Krygger, and Arthur Lynch. A beautifully produced book,Australia's Boer War was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial, which has provided over 200 illustrations and maps, including 15 artwork reproductions in full color.
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521530590
This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.
