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Masked raiders : Irish banditry in Southern Africa : 1880-1899
- Title
- Masked raiders : Irish banditry in Southern Africa : 1880-1899 / Charles van Onselen.
- Author
- Van Onselen, Charles.
- Publication
- Cape Town, South Africa : Zebra Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV7150 .V25 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- For two decades before a railway system linked southern Africa's principal cities in the mid-1890s, the world's richest supplies of diamonds and gold were transported by coach and horses to distant ports for export. For Irish soldiers based at Fort Napier, Pietermaritzburg, the temptation of this fabulous wealth proved irresistible: they deserted by the score and, as members of the criminal 'Irish Brigade', embarked on a spree of bank, safe and highway robberies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241).
- Contents
- From agrarian Ireland and industrial Lancashire to Natal's college of banditry -- Deserters and navvies -- Bank robbers in the kingdom of the imagination -- Coach robbers and highwaymen in the pre-rail era -- Safe-robbers and blasters of the Witwatersrand -- The parameters of popular support : criminal heroes, outlaw legends and social bandits -- The birth and death of 'outlaw legends' : social banditry in a racially divided setting -- Illicit gold buying, the arrival of the advanced Irish nationalists and the loss of the Dorothea.
- ISBN
- 9781770220805
- 1770220801
- LCCN
- 2010453325
- OCLC
- ocn645023585
- 645023585
- SCSB-1567777
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library