Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War
| Autor: | H.C. Hummel |
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| Jazyk: | Afrikaans<br />English |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Contree, Vol 20, Iss 0 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0379-9867 2959-510X |
| DOI: | 10.4102/nc.v20i0.733 |
| Popis: | In October 1899 the Anglo-Boer War broke out. This article looks at how so quintessentially English speaking a community as late-Victorian Grahamstown (especially some of its local newspapers) reacted to the gathering crisis. Underlying the most obvious - but certainly not entirely representative - outburst of popular jingoistic feeling, was the sense that Grahamstown was in a state of limbo: it was no longer of commercial or military importance and it had not yet found its sense of identity as a university centre. In such circumstances, Grahamstonians looked essentially to their own interests. Theirs was a "tightfisted" response even to the plight of their own compatriots who fled the "Boer North". |
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