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

Title
Remembering the South African war : Britain and the memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the present / Peter Donaldson.
ISBN
9781781385722
1781385726
9781846319686
1846319684
9781781381038
1781381038
Published
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 193 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
Summary
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 in commemorative practice and foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in the aftermath of the Great War. This work provides the first comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in the aftermath of the South African War. The approach goes beyond the simple deconstruction of memorial iconography and, instead, looks at the often tortuous and lengthy gestation of remembrance sites, from the formation of committees to the raising of finance and debates over form. In the process both Edwardian Britain's sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South Africa are thrown into relief. In the concluding sections of the book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites, namely the multi-volume histories produced by the War Office and The Times, and the seminal television documentaries of Kenneth Griffith. Once again the approach goes beyond simple textual deconstruction to place the sources firmly in their wider context by exploring both production and reception. By uncovering the themes and myths that underpinned these interpretations of the war, shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived are revealed.
Variant and related titles
KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Donaldson, Peter. Remembering the South African War : Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
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.
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