Introduction
The British
Empire and its Critics : the Boer War 1899-1902
These pages
have been
set up to make life easier for students of a course I teach to two
classes
:
an optional
English
course in the second/fourth year at the I.E.P.
an optional third-year course
in the English Department of Lyon 2 University
The two
courses are
not exactly the same, but I have grouped them together because they
draw
on the same resources.
Students will find
resources for the course on these pages, in the folder of their local
university
library, and in the recommended book:
Dennis Judd
& Keith
Surridge, The Boer War, John Murray, 2003.
(now out of
print, but some copies still available at Decitre,
6 place Bellecour
Tel. 04 26 68 00 12)
Setting
the Scene
1. 1900
Maps, facts and figures
2. The South African
War
Timeline
The New
Imperialists
3. Historians
Extract from (Sir)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War (1902)
4.
Poets, Novelists
and Dramatists
Poem by Rudyard Kipling,
“The Absent-Minded Beggar” (1899)
5. The
Popular Media
Extract from H.G.
Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911)
6.
Unseen text
for commentary in class (26/10)
Critics
of Imperialism
7.
Socialists
Extract from J.A.
Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (1902)
8.
Pacifists
Extract from Gandhi's
Satyagraha in South Africa (1928)
9.
International
Perspectives
Letter from Mark Twain
(1899)
10. Boer
perspectives
Extract from Denys
Reitz, Commando (1929)
11.
Black perspectives
Article by Pixley
ka Isaka Seme (1911)
12. Unseen
text with
questions for commentary in class
For help
preparing
texts for class discussion, see my Seminar
Notes pages
Link to the I.E.P.
my
e-mail
address