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The Boer War : army, nation and empire : the 1999 Chief of Army, Australian War Memorial, military history conference / edited by Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey.

Title
The Boer War : army, nation and empire : the 1999 Chief of Army, Australian War Memorial, military history conference / edited by Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey.
Publication
Canberra : Army History Unit, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Grey, Jeffrey
  • Dennis, Peter
  • Australia. Department of Defence. Army History Unit
Description
xi, 235 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • 1899-1902
  • South African War, 1899-1902 > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Introduction / Lieutenant General Frank Hickling -- Looking back on the South African war / Craig Wilcox -- South Africa's post Boer, Boer War / Bill Nasson -- The South African war and the late Victorian army / lan F. W. Beckett -- South Africa and the Boer military system / lan van der Waag -- The Boer War as a media war / Stephen Badsey -- The crucible of war: Canadian and British Troops during the Boer War / Carman Miller -- Modern cavalry: mounted rifles, the Boer War and the doctrinal debates / Jean Bou -- To shoot and ride: mobility and firepower in mounted warfare / lain G. Spence -- Manufacturing spontaneity the role of the commandants in the colonial offers of troops to the South African war / Stephen Clarke -- Tommy Cornstalk: a soldier's impression of the war / Peter Burness -- With Banjo to Kimberley: Banjo Paterson's South African War verse as history / Peter Stanley -- The influence of the Boer War on Australian commanders in the First World War / D.M. Horner.
  • A wanton deed of blood and rapine: opposition to Australian participation in the Boer War / Bobbie Oliver -- Home front largesse: colonial patriotic funds and the Boer War / Melanie Oppenheimer -- Blooding the nation: the Boer War and federation / John Hirst -- Convenient conflict, aspects of the Boer War and Australian federation / Luke Trainor.
ISBN
0642704821
OCLC
  • 48988834
  • SCSB-10692890
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library