The South African War Reappraised

Abstract

Introduction - The global impact of the South African War and its legacy, Donald Lowry a century of controversy over origins, Iain Smith journalism and active politics - Flora Shaw, The Times and South Africa, Dorothy O. Helly, Helen Callaway The Times at war, 1899-1902, Jacqueline Beaumont intermediate imperialism and the test of empire - Milner's eccentric high commissionership in South Africa, John Benyon African attitudes to the British Empire, Chrisopher Saunders Boer attitudes to Africans, Fransjohan Pretorius the Cape Afrikaners and the British Empire from the Jameson Raid to the South Africa War, Mordechai Tamarkin Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out? - the South African War, Empire and India, Balasubramanyam Chandramohan religion against the South African War - marshalling the non-conformist conscience, Greg Cuthbertson 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.