Denis Judd, Keith Surridge

The Boer War

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers. This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first signs of unrest to the eventual peace. In the process, it debunks several of the myths which have grown up around the conflict and explores the deadly legacy it left for southern Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 134mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781350143548
• ISBN-10: 1350143545
• Artikelnr.: 57835984

Autorenporträt

Denis Judd is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History, London Metropolitan University, and Professor at New York University in London. His books include Empire; George VI (both published by I.B.Tauris); The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj; Balfour and the British Empire; Radical Joe - A Life of Joseph Chamberlain; The Victorian Empire; Palmerston; The Crimean War and Jawaharlal Nehru. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Keith Surridge is an independent scholar. He is the author of Managing the South African War 1899-1902.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Preface Introduction: An Irrepressible
Conflict? PART I: THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR British Rule, Confrontation and
Compromise 1815-1886 The Descent to War 1886-1899 PART II: THE COMBATANTS
3. The British Army 4. Rallying the Empire 5. The Boers PART III: THE
CAMPAIGNS 1899-1902 6. The Opening Battles, October 1899 7. The Disasters
of Black Week, December 1899: The Battles of Stormberg, Magersfontein and
Colenso, and their less disastrous prelude 8. Humiliation, January and
February 1900: The Battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz 9. 'I thank God we
have kept the flag flying': The Besieged Towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and
Mafeking 10. The Turn of the Tide, February 1900: The Relief of Kimberley,
the Battle of Paardeberg, the Relief of Ladysmith 11. Marching to Pretoria
(and Johannesburg): The British Advance through the Boer Republics, the
Relief of Mafeking, the Start of the Guerrilla War 12. Methods of
Barbarism? December 1900 to October 1901: The Guerrilla War, Farm Burning,
the Concentration Camps 13. Seeking Peace, March 1900-June 1901 14. The
Final Battles, May 1901-May 1902 PART IV: THE AMBIVALENCES OF WAR 15. Big
Business, Capitalism and War 16. The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars? 17. The
Pro-Boers 18. Foreigners and the War 19. The Press and the War 20. The
Literature of the War PART V: THE PEACE 21. The Talks Begin 22. Taking
Stock Peace at Last