Journal articles: 'South Africa – History – South African War, 1899-1902'

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Miller, Stephen M., and Bill Nasson. "The South African War, 1899-1902." Journal of Military History 64, no. 2 (April 2000): 551. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/120277.

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Grundy, Kenneth W., and Bill Nasson. "The South African War 1899-1902." American Historical Review 105, no. 5 (December 2000): 1848. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2652211.

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Rotberg, Robert I. "The Jameson Raid: An American Imperial Plot?" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49, no. 4 (March 2019): 641–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01341.

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South Africa’s Jameson Raid ultimately betrayed African rights by transferring power to white Afrikaner nationalists after helping to precipitate the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The Raid also removed Cecil Rhodes from the premiership of the Cape Colony; strengthened Afrikaner control of the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and its world-supplying gold mines; and motivated the Afrikaner-controlled consolidation of segregation in the Union of South Africa, and thence apartheid. Perceptively, Charles van Onselen’s The Cowboy Capitalist links what happened on the goldfields of South Africa to earlier labor unrest in Idaho’s silver mines. Americans helped to originate the Raid and all of the events in its wake.

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Lamphear, John, and Bill Nasson. "The South African War 1899-1902." International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. 2 (2000): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220744.

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Skubko, Yury. "30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations Between Russia and South Africa." Uchenie zapiski Instituta Afriki RAN 60, no. 3 (September 7, 2022): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2022-60-3-119-127.

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On March 14, 2022 the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a round table discussion to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa, organized by the Centre for Southern African studies. The history and current state of relations between the two countries and peoples were discussed by African studies researchers, Russian Foreign ministry officials and diplomats in South Africa, South African public figures and civil society activists, veterans of the national liberation movement. Among issues discussed were historic ties between Russia and South Africa dating back to the 18th century, first diplomatic contacts in the 19th century, participation of Russian volunteers in the Anglo-Boer war of 1899–1902, Russian emigration to South Africa, Soviet aid to the national liberation struggle against the apartheid regime, particularly relations with the ANC, first Soviet-South African diplomatic ties, influence on them of perestroika and the dissolution of USSR. Current problems of cooperation and development of relations in different fields within strategic partnership between the two countries, particularly, within the framework of BRICS, were also discussed.

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Donaldson, Peter. "‘We are having a very enjoyable game’: Britain, sport and the South African War, 1899–1902." War in History 25, no. 1 (July 20, 2017): 4–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344516652422.

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This article explores the relationship between sport and war in Britain during the South African War, 1899–1902. Through extensive press coverage, as well as a spate of memoirs and novels, the British public was fed a regular diet of war stories and reportage in which athletic endeavour and organized games featured prominently. This contemporary literary material sheds light on the role sport was perceived to have played in the lives and work of the military personnel deployed in South Africa. It also, however, reveals a growing unease over an amateur-military tradition which equated sporting achievement with military prowess.

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Miller, Stephen M. "British Surrenders and the South African War, 1899–1902." War & Society 38, no. 2 (January 29, 2019): 98–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2019.1566980.

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Porter, Andrew. "The South African War (1899–1902): context and motive reconsidered." Journal of African History 31, no. 1 (March 1990): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700024774.

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Since 1899 the idea has been widely held that the South African War was no isolated episode but one illuminating the fundamental characteristics of British expansion, both in the nineteenth century and beyond. Cross-reference between the particulars of South African history and theories of imperialism has long been a fact of intellectual life. This process, however, often seems to reflect less the fruitful interplay of new knowledge and evolving hypotheses than the progressive entrenchment of separate schools of thought. The purpose of this article is to highlight the gulf between different approaches, with reference to recent work; and to suggest that, notwithstanding the work of the last decade, little headway has been made in linking the development of South Africa's economy and mineral resources to the War of 1899 in any but the most general and self-evident of ways. It argues that the case for interpreting the origins of the war in the main from a metropolitan and political perspective retains considerable persuasiveness and explanatory power. Finally it puts forward an alternative way of seeing in the struggle representative features of British expansion.

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Thompson, Leonard, and Peter Warwick. "Black People and the South African War, 1899-1902." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16, no. 1 (1985): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/204353.

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Wilde, Richard H., and Peter Warwick. "Black People and the South African War, 1899-1902." American Historical Review 90, no. 2 (April 1985): 474. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1852789.

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Coetzee, Frans, and Iain R. Smith. "The Origins of the South African War, 1899-1902." American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (February 1998): 247. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2650904.

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Brown, Bridgette. "A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 52, no. 1 (August 9, 2017): 88–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2017.1354443.

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Swart, Sandra. "Horses in the South African War, c. 1899-1902." Society & Animals 18, no. 4 (2010): 348–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853010x524316.

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AbstractThis essay discusses the role of horses in war through the lens of their mortality in the South African War (1899-1902). This conflict was the biggest and most modern of the numerous precolonial and colonial wars that raged across the southern African subcontinent in the late nineteenth century. Aside from the human cost, the theater of war carried a heavy environmental toll, with the scorched-earth policy shattering the rural economy. The environmental charge extended to animals. Both sides relied on mounted troops, and the casualties suffered by these animals were on a massive scale. This is widely regarded as proportionally the most devastating waste of horseflesh in military history up until that time. This paper looks at the material context of—and reasons for—equine casualties and discusses the cultural dimension of equine mortality and how combatants on both sides were affected by this intimate loss.

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Miller, Stephen M., and Keith Terrance Surridge. "Managing the South African War, 1899-1902: Politicians v. Generals." Journal of Military History 64, no. 4 (October 2000): 1173. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2677296.

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Porter, A. "Shorter notice. The South African War, 1899-1902. B Nasson." English Historical Review 115, no. 462 (June 2000): 762–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/enghis/115.462.762-a.

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Porter, A. "Shorter notice. The South African War, 1899-1902. B Nasson." English Historical Review 115, no. 462 (June 1, 2000): 762–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.762-a.

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Paterson, Lachy. "Identity and Discourse:Te Pipiwharauroaand the South African War, 1899–1902." South African Historical Journal 65, no. 3 (September 2013): 444–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2013.770063.

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Raugh, Harold E., and Andre Wessels. "Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902." Journal of Military History 65, no. 4 (October 2001): 1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2677665.

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GRUNDLINGH, ALBERT. "THE KING'S AFRIKANERS? ENLISTMENT AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA'S DEFENCE FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939–45." Journal of African History 40, no. 3 (November 1999): 351–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853799007537.

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In contrast to the situation in Commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia, South Africa's participation in the Second World War has not been accorded a particularly significant place in the country's historiography. In part at least, this is the result of historiographical traditions which, although divergent in many ways, have a common denominator in that their various compelling imperatives have despatched the Second World War to the periphery of their respective scholarly discourses.Afrikaner historians have concentrated on wars on their ‘own’ soil – the South African War of 1899–1902 in particular – and beyond that through detailed analyses of white politics have been at pains to demonstrate the inexorable march of Afrikanerdom to power. The Second World War only featured insofar as it related to internal Afrikaner political developments. Neither was the war per se of much concern to English-speaking academic historians, either of the so-called liberal or radical persuasion. For more than two decades, the interests of English-speaking professional historians have been dominated by issues of race and class, social structure, consciousness and the social effects of capitalism. While the South African War did receive some attention in terms of capitalist imperialist expansion, the Second World War was left mostly to historians of the ‘drum-and-trumpet’ variety. In general, the First and Second World Wars did not appear a likely context in which to investigate wider societal issues in South Africa.

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van der Merwe, F. J., and J. Martin. "Four Southern African Horse Breeds." Animal Genetic Resources Information 32 (April 2002): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1014233900001565.

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SummaryThe history and development of the four Southern African horse breeds, i.e. Basutho Pony, Nooitgedacht, South African (SA) Boerperd and Cape Boerperd, are traced from their common ancestor, the Cape Horse, to the present day. Recent blood-typing studies of the first three have shown them to be closer related to each other than to any other world breed. At the beginning of the twentieth century the Southern African horse industry was devastated after the Anglo Boer War (1899–1902). Indiscriminate crossbreeding and intentional importation of other specialized breeds led to the near extinction of the descendants of the Cape Horse in South Africa. Fortunately, the efforts of the Government Department of Agriculture and a number of private breeders to identify, conserve and develop the then existing genetic material over the past half century, resulted in the existence today of three small, but viable, registered breeds of locally adapted and versatile horses viz. Nooitgedacht, SA Boerperd and Cape Boerperd. The recent history and apparent present situation of the Basutho Pony in the neighbouring country of Lesotho was also described.

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Pretorius, Fransjohan. "Boer Propaganda During the South African War of 1899–1902." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 37, no. 3 (September 2009): 399–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086530903157607.

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Pretorius, Fransjohan. "The Dutch social democrats and the South African war, 1899–1902." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 6, no. 2 (September 1999): 199–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507489908568232.

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Allen, Dean. "‘A man's game’: Cricket, war and masculinity, South Africa, 1899–1902." International Journal of the History of Sport 28, no. 1 (December 21, 2010): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2011.525306.

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Butler, Jeffrey, and Bill Nasson. "Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23, no. 1 (1992): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/205541.

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Skubko, Yury. "Yet Another Marks." Asia and Africa Today, no. 4 (2023): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s032150750025339-4.

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The article describes an amazing history of a phenomenal success in South Africa at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries of a Jewish emigrant from the Russian Empire Sammy (Samuel) Marks, rising from a peddler to a multimillionaire, called at the peak of his career the “uncrowned king of Transvaal”. He founded in cooperation with his cousin Isaac Lewis several branches of South African industrial economy and helped peaceful resolution of the Anglo-Boer war of 1899–1902. Among Marks and Lewis business interests were diamonds, gold and coal. Marks and Lewis business projects included distilleries, canning and glass factories, establishing flour-mills and brick works, erecting the country’s first hydroelectric power station. Marks pioneered in using tractors and progressive farm technologies. He was also widely respected for his generous charity activities. Sammy Marks played a significant role in the peaceful resolution of the Anglo-Boer conflict. Being a friend of Transvaal president P.Kruger and trusted by both sides of the hostilities, Marks helped to organize negotiations to end the Anglo-Boer war. Peace negotiations were held and concluded in his estate at Vereneeging in spring 1902. Peace agreements opened the way for modern statehood initially in the form of South African Union. Sammy Marks was nominated senator in the first Union parliament in 1910 and held this position till his death in 1920.

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Page, Melvin E., and Bill Nasson. "Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902." American Historical Review 97, no. 4 (October 1992): 1261. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165629.

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Morton, Desmond, and Carman Miller. "Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902." Journal of Military History 58, no. 1 (January 1994): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2944197.

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SMITH, IAIN R. "The Origins of the South African War (1899–1902): A Re-Appraisal." South African Historical Journal 22, no. 1 (November 1990): 24–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479008671654.

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SUTTIE, MARY-LYNN. "Rethinking the South African War, 1899–1902: The Anatomy of a Conference." South African Historical Journal 39, no. 1 (November 1998): 144–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479808671334.

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Morton, R. F. "Linchwe I and the Kgatla Campaign in the South African War, 1899-1902." Journal of African History 26, no. 2-3 (March 1985): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700036926.

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Although the importance of the African role in the South African War (1889-1902) is now recognized, this study of the Bakgatala ba ga Kgafela is the first to demonstrate an African perception of events and argue that the Kgatla initiated military action and pursued goals independent of a simple British vs. Boer formula. The war created major economic and political opportunities for the Kgatla, a people physically separated and colonially partitioned. Half the Kgatla lived in the Kgatla Reserve of the British-ruled Bechuanaland Protectorate, and the other half lived in the Saulspoort area of the western Transvaal under Boer rule. Their leader, Linchwe I (1874–1924), maintained his capital at Mochudi in the Protectorate and received only partial allegiance from the Saulspoort Kgatia. Soon after the war began, Linchwe involved his regiments actively in fighting alongside the British in the Protectorate and raiding on their own in the Transvaal in an effort to eliminate Boer settlement and political control in Saulspoort and other areas of the western Transvaal. Kgatia regiments also emptied Boer farms of cattle which, in addition to restoring the national herd decimated by the 1897 rinderpest, Linchwe used in establishing his political hold over the Saulspoort Kgatia. Protectorate officials were grateful for Kgatia support, but Linchwe disguised the extent and nature of Kgatia operations and concealed from the British his political objectives. Linchwe's campaign made possible in the years following the war the reunification of the Kgatia under his authority, the distribution of wealth among all his people and the reduction of colonial interference in the political lives of his people.

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Tennyson, Brian Douglas, and Carman Miller. "Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902." American Historical Review 99, no. 2 (April 1994): 695. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2167530.

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Duminy, Andrew, and Bill Nasson. "Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902." International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, no. 3 (1993): 644. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220485.

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Smith, I. R. "Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899-1902 * One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War." English Historical Review CXXII, no. 495 (February 1, 2007): 215–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel410.

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Chait, Sandra, and Bill Nasson. "Abraham Esau's War. A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 28, no. 2 (1994): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485751.

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Donaldson. "The Commemoration of the South African War (1899–1902) in British Public Schools." History and Memory 25, no. 2 (2013): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.25.2.32.

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Higginson, John. "Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South." Comparative Studies in Society and History 63, no. 4 (October 2021): 851–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041752100027x.

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AbstractKey moments of the American Civil War and the 1899–1902 South African War and their tragic immediate aftermaths remain powerful features of national memory in both countries. Over the past century, vengeful politicians and ideologues in both have transformed them into formidable stock-in-trade. Second-, third-, and fourth-hand accounts of the alleged churlish manner of the victorious armies, especially soldiers of African descent, were made into combustible timber for reactionary political campaigns. The perceived cruel turns of fate have made their way into literature, stage, and screen. The two wars afforded people of various races and social conditions opportunity to act upon their conceptions of a just society, albeit amid terrible carnage and loss. They also underscored the permanence of the industrial transformation of both countries. In the decades following these two wars most of the black and white agrarian populations discovered that state and agrarian elites had cynically manipulated and then extinguished their aspirations. Most often, for black agrarians, violence was the preferred instrument to pursue desired outcomes. Reconstruction in the American South was a paradox. The Civil War emancipated the slaves but left the entire South, especially upland cotton regions, economically backward. In Louisiana, especially, politicized violence to coerce black labor was pervasive. After the South African War, white violence against rural black people was widespread. Lord Milner’s Reconstruction Administration was more concerned to bring South Africa’s gold mines back into production than to stem the violence. The low-intensity violence of the postwar countryside became the backland route to apartheid.

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Fetter, Bruce, and Stowell Kessler. "Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War." Social Science History 20, no. 4 (1996): 593–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200017582.

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He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.(Mitchell 1960 [1936])Writing for an American audience in the 1930s, Margaret Mitchell was able to dispatch the husband of Scarlett O’Hara with a certain irony. By then measles had become a childhood disease that was seldom fatal. During the nineteenth century, however, measles was not so lightly dismissed. Epidemics in populations with high proportions of susceptible individuals could be dangerous indeed. This article traces the history of measles in South Africa, showing how political and economic changes temporarily produced conditions that led to a devastating epidemic during the Boer War (1899–1902). It then compares the history of measles in South Africa with that in Great Britain and closes with a discussion of the relationship between human and biological causes in the history of the disease.

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Spiers, E. "Shorter notice. Managing the South African War, 1899-1902: Politicians v. Generals. K Surridge." English Historical Review 114, no. 459 (November 1, 1999): 1352–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.459.1352-a.

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Nasson, Bill. "Waging Total War in South Africa: Some Centenary Writings on the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902." Journal of Military History 66, no. 3 (July 2002): 813. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3093360.

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Spencer, Scott C. "Flooding the Networks: The Aftermath of the South African Constabulary, 1902–14." Britain and the World 11, no. 2 (September 2018): 153–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2018.0297.

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This article examines the aftermath of the short-lived South African Constabulary (1900–1908), raised during the South African War from across British domains to provide post-war security for reconstruction. The SAC peaked at just over 10,000 white officers and constables in the War's final months, then steadily declined to less than 2,000 at disbandment in 1908. Circumscribed by a path dependence, thousands of retrenched SAC men sought to continue their careers as imperial administrators. Those with patrons or who fit the ‘uniform’ (fit, young, and fair-skinned) parlayed their experience into new positions. The men of the SAC form a large, recognisable cohort that scholars can follow to locate the natural paths of the British World, recovering how men, ideas, and methods flowed over place and time in the heterogeneous but singular British Isles-and-Empire. The timing of colonial administrative expansion mattered, more for the available ‘experienced’ personnel than the ‘acceptable’ ideologies and justifications of rule that they carried. Ex-SAC men affected particularly the development of policing in colonial West, East, and Southern Africa. Those institutions formed or reorganised in the early twentieth century retained the stamp of former SAC officers and constables for decades.

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Pretorius, Fransjohan. "Reading Practices and Literacy of Boer Combatants in the South African War of 1899–1902." War in History 24, no. 3 (February 1, 2017): 286–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344516666421.

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In investigating the reading practices of Boer combatants during the South African War, diaries, letters, and reminiscences were consulted. The state of literacy reveals a picture of a small number of highly literate men, a larger group of adequately literate men, a still larger group of semi-literates, and the illiterate. Reading matter included the Bible, newspapers, and books. Issues raised are: Did literacy (or illiteracy) influence military decision-making or troop morale? Were certain works making some impact on the battlefield? Was the practical experience the Boers had gained before the war more successful in planning strategy and tactics than literacy?

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Stanley, Liz, and Helen Dampier. "Aftermaths: post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 12, no. 1 (March 2005): 91–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507480500047860.

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STUCHTEY, BENEDIKT. "The International of Critics: German and British Scholars during the South African War (1899–1902)." South African Historical Journal 41, no. 1 (November 1999): 149–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479908671889.

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Corduwener, P. "Boekbespreking - Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, War of words. Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902)." Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tvgesch2013.1.cord.

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Swart, Sandra. "“The World the Horses Made”: A South African Case Study of Writing Animals into Social History." International Review of Social History 55, no. 2 (August 2010): 241–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859010000192.

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SummaryThis paper explores new ways to write history that engages with the lives of animals. It offers a sample card of how social history can be enriched by focusing on history from an animal perspective – and equally, how the tools provided by social history reveals the historicity of animals. The case study is drawn from South African history and the focus is on horses. The paper firstly proposes that horses changed human history not only on the macro-level, but in the small, intimate arena of the bodily, following Febvre’s call for a sensory history. Secondly, this paper explores social history’s long-time concern with agency and with understanding socio-cultural experiences from the perspective of those who actually lived them – in this case, from an equine perspective. Thirdly, the paper asks how social history that takes animals seriously might be written and might offer a fresh dimension to our understanding, with examples from the most analysed event in southern African historiography, the South African War (1899–1902).

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Wassermann, Johan. "Identity politics and being a Free Stater during the South African War (1899-1902): A micro-history of the inhabitants of the greater Drakensberg region." New Contree 76 (November 30, 2016): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/nc.v76i0.133.

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The South African War was also a conflict about identity. Prior to the conflict, English-speakers with strong Natal ties as Orange Free State (OFS) subjects, resided in Harrismith, while Afrikaners resided along the foothills of the Drakensberg on the Natal side, but migrated seasonally with livestock to the Free State. This led to a transitional existence where identity politics transcended the transitional border of the Drakensberg. The identity politics as it existed, whereby residents along both sides of the Drakensberg thought of themselves as “Free Staters” by dint of culture, blood and association, economics, state of mind or legally, were seriously disrupted by the outbreak of the South African War. The self-gradation in terms of identity politics, whereby it was constructed rationally and contextually were, as the war progressed, systematically replaced by one imposed in the region by, first, the OFS and, once they were pushed out of Natal, by the Empire and the Colony of Natal. This had serious consequences for the identity politics as practiced along the Drakensberg. In this micro-history the identity politics of the inhabitants of the greater Drakensberg region are analysed, determining how it was impacted on by the South African War.

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Limb, Peter, Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundlingh, and Mary-Lynn Suttie. "Writing a Wider War: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War, 1899-1902." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 38, no. 1 (2004): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4107275.

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Thomas, James B., Malcolm Riall, and Nicholas Riall. "Boer War: The Letters, Diaries and Photographs of Malcolm Riall from the War in South Africa, 1899-1902." Journal of Military History 65, no. 3 (July 2001): 811. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2677566.

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CUTHBERTSON, GREG. "Missionary Imperialism and Colonial Warfare: London Missionary Society Attitudes to the South African War, 1899–1902." South African Historical Journal 19, no. 1 (November 1987): 93–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582478708671624.

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Nasson, Bill. "From the Bottom and from the Top: Imperial Britain's Last War in South Africa, 1899–1902." South African Historical Journal 65, no. 3 (September 2013): 463–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2013.807986.

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