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Remembering the South African war : Britain and the memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the present /

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 na...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donaldson, Peter (Peter McIntosh)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
©2013
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Civic war memorials: public pride and private grief
  • Pro patria mori: remembering the regiment
  • Vitai lampada: remembering the war in schools
  • Alternative affliliations: remembering the war in families, workplaces and places of worship
  • Writing the Anglo-Boer War: Leo Amery, Frederick Maurice and the history of the South African War
  • Filming the war: television, Kenneth Griffith and the Boer War.