By Peter Dwyer, Leo Zeilig
ISBN-10: 1608463087
ISBN-13: 9781608463084
This groundbreaking research examines the profits, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles throughout Southern Africa.
Three best Africa students examine the social forces riding the democratic transformation of postcolonial states throughout southern Africa. vast study and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland tell this research of the demanding situations confronted by way of non-governmental corporations in bearing on either to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grassroots struggles for social justice.
About the Authors:
Peter Dwyer is a coach in economics at Ruskin university in Oxford.
Leo Zeilig Lecturer on the Institute of Commonwealth experiences, collage of London.
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Marwick, Britain in the Century of Total War: War, Peace and Social Change, 1900–1967 (1968), p. 13. The issue of military reform and defence planning is discussed at length in Searle’s chapter below; but see also K. T. Surridge’s study of the war’s impact on British civil–military relations, Managing the South African War, 1899–1902: Politicians v. Generals (Suffolk, 1998); the perceptive essay by H. Strachan, ‘The Boer War and its Impact on the British Army, 1902–14’ in P. B. Boyden, A. J. Guy and M.
Translation. 43 M. G. Kenny, ‘A Place for Memory: the Interface between Individual and Collective History’, Society for Comparative Study of Society and History, 41 (1999), p. 425. 1 Not surprisingly, the principal myths identified as having been particularly persistent are twofold. These are that the Anglo-Boer conflict was conducted as the last of the ‘gentleman’s wars’, fought by tender gladiators, and that the war was run by both sides as an exclusive enterprise reserved for ‘white men’, in which the black majority played a conspicuously unobtrusive role.
Hence the courage and determination of the die-hard Boer fighters revealed those character traits supposedly typical of the Afrikaner and deemed worthy to emulate. Third, historical events could be re-enacted or commemorated through processions or certain rituals, The War in Afrikaner Consciousness 27 giving substance and content to ethnic identity by recreating and defining its boundaries. This applies more particularly to the annual Great Trek celebrations which reached their apex in the centenary celebrations of 1938.
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