Remembering the South African war : : Britain and the memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the present / / Peter Donaldson.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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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.