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Remembering the South African War: Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present
Peter Donaldson
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Description for Remembering the South African War: Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present
Hardcover. The first comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in the aftermath of the South African War, uncovering the themes and myths that underpinned the interpretations of the war as well as shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived. Num Pages: 193 pages, 1 frontispiece, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBWM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms of commemoration. For these reasons, the South African War was an important moment of transition ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms of commemoration. For these reasons, the South African War was an important moment of transition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319686
SKU
V9781846319686
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About Peter Donaldson
Dr Peter Donaldson is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Kent.
Reviews for Remembering the South African War: Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present
Peter Donaldson has provided a pathbreaking survey. The author should be commended not only for the breadth of his empirical research but also for his willingness to avoid arcane deconstruction techniques in favor of getting to the heart of the practical production and reception of memory.
Journal of British Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 02
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Journal of British Studies, Volume 53 / Issue 02
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