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South African War, 1899-1902

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The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it's also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent Brit

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South African War, 1899-1902 --- Concentration camps. --- War work. --- Hobhouse, Emily,

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This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack the future of the African majority.

Afrikaners --- Rural poor --- Poor whites --- Violence --- Political violence --- South African War, 1899-1902. --- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Boer War, 1899-1902 --- Transvaal War, 1899-1902 --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- White poor --- Poor --- Whites --- Rural poverty --- Africaanders --- Africanders --- Africaners --- Afrikaanders --- Afrikaaners --- Afrikaans-speaking South Africans --- Afrikanders --- Boers --- South Africans, Afrikaans-speaking --- Dutch --- Ethnology --- Economic conditions --- History --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- English-Afrikaner relations --- Race relations --- Rural conditions --- White poor people --- White people