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Remembering the South African War - Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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Remembering the South African War - Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. The experience of
the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a
number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning
populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to
contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the
war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the
fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms
of commemoration. For these reasons, the South African War was an
important moment of transition in commemorative practice and
foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in
the aftermath of the Great War. This work provides the first
comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in
the aftermath of the South African War. The approach goes beyond
the simple deconstruction of memorial iconography and, instead,
looks at the often tortuous and lengthy gestation of remembrance
sites, from the formation of committees to the raising of finance
and debates over form. In the process both Edwardian Britain's
sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South
Africa are thrown into relief. In the concluding sections of the
book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites, namely
the multi-volume histories produced by the War Office and The
Times, and the seminal television documentaries of Kenneth
Griffith. Once again the approach goes beyond simple textual
deconstruction to place the sources firmly in their wider context
by exploring both production and reception. By uncovering the
themes and myths that underpinned these interpretations of the war,
shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived are
revealed.
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