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Book War of Words

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  • Author : Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9089644121
  • Pages : 818 pages

Download or read book War of Words written by Vincent Kuitenbrouwer and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Impact of the South African War

Download or read book Impact of the South African War written by D. Omissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.

Book The Origins of the South African War  1899 1902

Download or read book The Origins of the South African War 1899 1902 written by Iain R. Smith and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Painting the Map Red

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  • Author : Carman Miller
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0773517502
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Painting the Map Red written by Carman Miller and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Black People and the South African War 1899 1902

Download or read book Black People and the South African War 1899 1902 written by Peter Warwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Boer War 1899   1902

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  • Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-06
  • ISBN : 1472810171
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Boer War 1899 1902 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.

Book Naval Brigades in the South African War  1899 1900

Download or read book Naval Brigades in the South African War 1899 1900 written by Thomas T. Jeans and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The South African War Reappraised

Download or read book The South African War Reappraised written by Donal Lowry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text brings together contributions from scholars in South African and imperial history to examine the international dimensions of the war, including a historiographical review of a century of writing on the origins of the war.

Book Memoirs of the Boer War

Download or read book Memoirs of the Boer War written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of Monday 4 June 1900, the young State Attorney of the South African Republic bade a sad farewell to his wife and child whom he was never to see again and left Pretoria to join the Boer commandos. He had braved shot and shell to put the government's sole source of finance for the continuing war - less than half a million pounds sterling in gold and coins - on a special train to President Kruger in the Eastern Transvaal. The next day, Lord Robert's army entered the capital. Jan Smuts came to play an important role in the South African war of 1899-1902. His memoirs are recorded here, and they present an account of the critical events from the fall of Pretoria to the reorganization of the commandos in December that year.

Book Why the Boers Lost the War

Download or read book Why the Boers Lost the War written by L. Scholtz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyse the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to accepted modern military theory. It is shown that both the British and Boer war efforts were very haphazard at the beginning, but that both learnt as the war went on. In the end, the British got the Boers in a vice from which they could not escape.

Book The South African War 1899 1902

Download or read book The South African War 1899 1902 written by Bill Nasson and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Volunteers on the Veld

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  • Author : Stephen M. Miller
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780806138640
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Volunteers on the Veld written by Stephen M. Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spotlights Britain's “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.

Book The Origins of the South African War

Download or read book The Origins of the South African War written by Andrew N. Porter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boer War

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  • Author : Craig Wilcox
  • Publisher : Craig WIlcox
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Boer War written by Craig Wilcox and published by Craig WIlcox. This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a guide to researching the records of those Australians who served in the Boer War, 1899-1902.

Book Boer War Illustrated

Download or read book Boer War Illustrated written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South African War Books

Download or read book South African War Books written by and published by Peter G. de Lotz. This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the hundredth of anniversary of the South African (or Boer) War of 1899-1902 fast approaching, the campaign is receiving increased attention from military enthusiasts of all types. R.G. Hackett's bibliography goes far beyond the bare listing of author, date, contents, etc. that one so often encounters, to become a unique evocation of the era. The original covers of over a hundred books of the period are shown, with several dozen in full color, often showing regimental badges and colors. Most books published before 1920 are covered, with the author drawing not only on previously published bibliographies, but the private records of London rare book dealers and individual collections such as that of the British actor Kenneth Griffith. With a more just society now prevailing in South Africa, the sympathy felt at the time for the Boers by some can once again be appreciated. In addition to many British regimental accounts, this compilation also contains accounts of women in the Boer war effort, Richard Harding Davis' shrewd observations, and the memoirs of a West Point graduate in the Irish-American Brigade in Boer service. South African War Books not only belongs in any comprehensive reference library, but will also be treasured by anyone seriously interested in the period of the colonial wars.

Book The War for South Africa

Download or read book The War for South Africa written by Bill Nasson and published by NB Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.