TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donaldson, Peter
AB  - 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. 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt5vjmmh
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626376
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 890980920
KW  - History
KW  - Boer War
KW  - Second Boer War
KW  - South Africa
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0fd6ea0d-e2d7-4959-968e-59d413766183/626376.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31644
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2013-08-08
SN  - 9781781385722
TI  - Remembering the South African War : Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present
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