Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War write by Elizabeth van Heyningen. This book was released on 2013-09-30. Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in depth the very rich and extensive official documents in South African and British archives. It provides a fresh perspective on a topic that has understandably aroused huge emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners, especially women and children, who died in the camps. This fascinating social history overturns many of the previously held assumptions and conclusions on all sides, and is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than viewing the camps simply as the product of the scorched-earth policies of the war, the author sets them in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the 19th century, arguing that British views on poverty, poor relief and the management of colonial societies all shaped their administration. The book also attempts to explain why the camps were so badly administered in the first place, and why reform was so slow, suggesting that divided responsibility, ignorance, political opportunism and a failure to understand the needs of such institutions all played their part.
The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War
The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War write by E. Van Heyningen. This book was released on 2013. The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in depth the very rich and extensive official documents in South African and British archives. It provides a fresh perspective on a topic that has understandably aroused huge emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners, especially women and children, who died in the camps. This fascinating social history overturns many of the previously held assumptions and conclusions on all sides, and is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than viewing the camps simply as the product of the scorched-earth policies of the war, the author sets them in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the 19th century, arguing that British views on poverty, poor relief and the management of colonial societies all shaped their administration. The book also attempts to explain why the camps were so badly administered in the first place, and why reform was so slow, suggesting that divided responsibility, ignorance, political opportunism and a failure to understand the needs of such institutions all played their part. Since the original research arose from a project on the medical history of the camps, funded by the Wellcome Trust, there is a particularly strong focus on health and medicine, looking not only at the causes of mortality in the camps, but at the ideas which shaped the culture of the doctors and nurses ministering to the Boers.
The Black Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
The Black Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 write by Stowell Kessler. This book was released on 19??. The Black Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 write by A. W. G. Raath. This book was released on 1999-01-01. The British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902
Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902 write by Birgit Susanne Seibold. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The black spot—the one very black spot—in the picture is the frightful mortality in the Concentration Camps. I entirely agree with you in thinking, that while a hundred explanations may be offered and a hundred excuses made, they do not really amount to any adequate defence. I should much prefer to say at once, so far as the Civil authorities are concerned, that we were suddenly confronted with a problem not of our making, with which it was beyond our power properly to grapple. And no doubt its vastness was not realised soon enough. It was not till six weeks or two months ago that it dawned on me personally, (I cannot speak for others), that the enormous mortality was not merely incidental to the first formation of the camps and the sudden inrush of thousands of people already sick and starving, but was going to continue. The fact that it continues, is no doubt a condemnation of the Camp system. The whole thing, I think now, has been a mistake.Alfred Milner to Joseph Chamberlain, December 7th, 1901The British scorched earth policy during the last phase of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 led to the burning of farms, the destruction of homesteads, harvests and livestock and to the internment of the civil population in the so-called concentration camps. There, people—mainly women and children—died of malnutrition and diseases such as measles, pneumonia and typhoid. The death rate in the camps was so high—nearly 28,000 white Boers succumbed—that the English population, renowned for its gallantry and chivalry, was consternated. Lloyd George blamed his government for its policy of extermination, Campbell-Bannerman spoke of methods of barbarism, and philanthropic institutions protested, led by Emily Hobhouse, who was the first civilian to investigate the conditions of the camps. The government reacted and sent a ladies' commission under the leadership of Millicent Garrett Fawcett to South Africa.Birgit Seibold's study is the first to compare the 'inofficial' and the official report on the camps and to give an insight into conditions in each of the thirty-three white concentration camps. Based on first-hand research among the Hobhouse manuscripts, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable.
