The Cowboy Capitalist John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa |
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Author:
| van Onselen, Charles |
Foreword by:
| May, Robert E. |
Series title: | Reconsiderations in Southern African History Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4136-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2018 |
Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa's critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.
This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa's critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.