This book focuses upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increas

This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected

The South African War rounded off the British conquest of Southern Africa. Only now, a hundred years later, are some of the more baleful legacies of the war bei

This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.

Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable oppo