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Title The Boer War : direction, experience, and image / edited by John Gooch
Published London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Cass series--military history and policy, 1465-8488 ; 7
Cass series--military history and policy ; no. 7.
Contents Introduction / John Gooch -- Direction -- Salisbury and the Soldiers / David Steele -- Lansdowne at the War Office / Keith Surridge -- Buller and the Politics of Command / Ian F.W. Beckett -- Wolseley and the South African War / Halik Kochanski -- Experience -- Afrikaners at War / Andre Wessels -- Zulus and the War / John Laband -- Africans at War / William Nasson -- The Irish Soldier in the Boer War / Keith Jeffery -- The Scottish Soldier in the Boer War / Edward M. Spiers -- The Experience of the Bitter-ender Boer in the Guerrilla Phase of the South African War / Fransjohan Pretorius -- Image -- War Correspondents in the Boer War / Stephen Badsey -- 'To the Front': British Newspaper Advertising and the Boer War / Glenn R. Wilkinson -- Boer War Image-maker: Richard Caton Woodville / Roger T. Stearn -- Pictorial Journalism and the Boer War: The London Illustrated Weeklies / Peter Harrington
Summary This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject South African War, 1899-1902 -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
Burenkrieg
Boerenoorlog (Zuid-Afrika)
Sociale aspecten.
Beeldvorming.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Gooch, John, 1945-
ISBN 9781135271749
1135271747
9781135271817
113527181X