Research Catalog

Title

The concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War : a social history / Elizabeth van Heyningen.

Author

Van Heyningen, E.

Publication

Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2013.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xvii, 391 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

[Publisher-supplied data] A general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War, and the first to make an in-depth use of the very rich and extensive official documents in the South African and British archives, this book provides a fresh perspective on a topic that understandably arouses emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners especially women and children who died in the camps. Set in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the 19th century, this fascinating account overturns many previously held assumptions and conclusions. Arguing that British views on poverty, poor relief, and the management of colonial societies all shaped administration, this social history 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 a part.

Subject

• 19th-20th centuries
• 1899-1902
• Medical care > South Africa > History
• Internment camps > South Africa > History
• War > History
• Refugees > History
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Concentration camps
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Participation, Black
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Prisoners and prisons
• Concentration Camps > history
• Delivery of Health Care > history
• Refugees > history
• Warfare
• Camps d'internement > Afrique du Sud > Histoire
• Guerre > Histoire
• Réfugiés > Histoire
• Guerre des Boers, 1899-1902 > Camps d'internement
• Internment camps
• Medical care
• Prisoners of war
• Refugees
• War
• Burenkrieg
• Internierungslager
• Konzentrationslager
• War > History
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Concentration camps
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Prisoners and prisons
• South Africa
• South Africa > History > 19th century
• South Africa > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-375) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mythology of the camps -- The people of the camps -- Refugee relief -- Order and disorder: the civilian administration of the camps -- Pouring in: the women's experiences -- Meat, milk, measles and mortality -- 'Hewers of wood and drawers of water': the black camp experience -- Winds of change -- The practice of medicine -- Men and money -- Creating a British world -- Repatriation -- The legacy of the camps.

ISBN

• 9781431405428
• 1431405426

LCCN

2012526436

OCLC

• 825733836
• SCSB-12033990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library