THE BOER WAR

Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders no. 24.

255 pages, blue cloth with red title labels in silver on the upper cover and spine, a very good copy.

Extracted from a review by Bill Nasson: Fred R. van Hartesveldt's historiographical and bibliographical source book focuses mostly on the military side of the story, although its extensive listings include useful works with political, economic and social themes. The Boer War provides a compact introductory narrative of the war and its imperial context, and a fairly comprehensive assessment of its developing historiography. These forty-odd pages of crisp and sober prose contain some nice touches, as when Professor van Hartesveldt reminds readers that while the Boers had fought the war 'for ideology--nationalism and freedom (though not necessarily freedom for all)', the British 'had defined the war in terms of geography' (p. 31).

The remainder of this volume comprises an annotated bibliography of 1,378 entries, drawn from the principal English, Dutch, Afrikaans, French and German sources, and a well-crafted index which runs to almost forty pages.
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