Nov 4 The Anglo-South African War
"an imperial crisis of gigantic proportions" (P. J. Marshall)
I. Origins of the war
14,000 Afrikaners > Transvaal and the Orange Free State
Xhosa ("Kaffir Wars")
South West Africa (1884)
diamonds and gold
Cecil Rhodes [bio at PBS.org] [Rhodes scholarships]
-Consolidated Gold Fields
-South African Companyuitlanders
Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary
Leander Jameson (the Jameson Raid)
II. Anglo-South African (aka Boer) War [map]
Oct 1899-May 1902
400,000 British troops vs. 60,000 Boers
L250,000,000
guerilla warfare
concentration camps: 117,000 interred; 20,000 died
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts
African participation
III. The Home Front
"Khaki election of 1900"
relief of Mafeking; Colonel Baden-Powell [image]
moral and political conflict
the "Pro-Boers": John Morley, David Lloyd George
Liberal Imperialists
Emily Hobhouse [Anglo-Boer War Museum tribute]
Hobson, Imperialism, A Study (1902) [excerpt]
IV. Consequences
-racial segregation; Union of South Africa (1910)
-revealed British vulnerability
-emergence of anti-imperialism
-end of splendid isolation
-growth of Anglo-German antagonism
-review of British defense
-cementing of Anglo-Dominion relations
