Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War | |
| Creator | Hummel, H.C. | |
| Description | 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". | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2024-07-04 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/nc.v20i0.733 | |
| Source | New Contree; Vol 20 (1986); 5 2959-510X 0379-9867 | |
| Language | eng | |
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