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2 A century of controversy over origins

Abstract

The South African War of 1899-1902 has attracted more attention from historians than any other event in South African history and there has been more controversy over its origins than over any other aspect. For most of the Afrikaners who wrote about the origins of this war until the 1970s, the dominant paradigm within which they set their accounts was that of Afrikaner nationalism. The South African War is presented as the culmination of Afrikaner national grievances against British imperialism. Since Afrikaner nationalism fed upon a deep sense of grievance, suffering and oppression at the hands of British imperialists, the South African War soon rivalled the Great Trek as a focus for the attentions of Afrikaner nationalist writers. The 'Hobson thesis' about the origins of the South African War did not, in fact, originate with Hobson.

Abstract

The South African War of 1899-1902 has attracted more attention from historians than any other event in South African history and there has been more controversy over its origins than over any other aspect. For most of the Afrikaners who wrote about the origins of this war until the 1970s, the dominant paradigm within which they set their accounts was that of Afrikaner nationalism. The South African War is presented as the culmination of Afrikaner national grievances against British imperialism. Since Afrikaner nationalism fed upon a deep sense of grievance, suffering and oppression at the hands of British imperialists, the South African War soon rivalled the Great Trek as a focus for the attentions of Afrikaner nationalist writers. The 'Hobson thesis' about the origins of the South African War did not, in fact, originate with Hobson.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. General editor’s introduction vii
  4. Notes on contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xii
  6. 1 Introduction 1
  7. 2 A century of controversy over origins 23
  8. 3 Journalism as active politics 50
  9. 4 The Times at war, 1899–1902 67
  10. 5 ‘Intermediate’ imperialism and the test of Empire 84
  11. 6 Boer attitudes to Africans in wartime 104
  12. 7 The Cape Afrikaners and the British Empire from the Jameson Raid to the South African War 121
  13. 8 African attitudes to Britain and the Empire before and after the South African War 140
  14. 9 ‘Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out’? 150
  15. 10 Pricking the ‘non-conformist conscience’ 169
  16. 11 Kruger’s farmers, Strathcona’s Horse, Sir George Clarke’s camels and the Kaiser’s battleships 188
  17. 12 ‘The Boers were the beginning of the end’? 203
  18. Index 247
The South African War reappraised
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526121523.00007

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. General editor’s introduction vii
  4. Notes on contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xii
  6. 1 Introduction 1
  7. 2 A century of controversy over origins 23
  8. 3 Journalism as active politics 50
  9. 4 The Times at war, 1899–1902 67
  10. 5 ‘Intermediate’ imperialism and the test of Empire 84
  11. 6 Boer attitudes to Africans in wartime 104
  12. 7 The Cape Afrikaners and the British Empire from the Jameson Raid to the South African War 121
  13. 8 African attitudes to Britain and the Empire before and after the South African War 140
  14. 9 ‘Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left out’? 150
  15. 10 Pricking the ‘non-conformist conscience’ 169
  16. 11 Kruger’s farmers, Strathcona’s Horse, Sir George Clarke’s camels and the Kaiser’s battleships 188
  17. 12 ‘The Boers were the beginning of the end’? 203
  18. Index 247
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