Table of Contents

Managing the Boer threat - 1895-9; the final crisis - June-October 1899; war, defeat and reform - October 1899-November 1901; the conquest of the Boer republics - December 1899-September 1900; police and refugees - May-December 1900; battling for supremacy - December 1900-July 1901; Kitchener's victory - July 1901-March 1902; managing the peace - the Treaty of Vereeniging - December 1901-June 1902.

Reviews

A most important and original contribution to the history of the South African war.
*ALBION*

A valuable addition to the literature on the Boer War and the scholarship on British civil-military relations.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Surridge has done a masterful job of dissecting the relationship between government and military during the campaign.
*ARCHIVES*

Widely researched and meticulously documented.
*JNL OF SOCIETY OF ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH*

Important for what it has to say about the South African War and for its exploration of the role of colonial warfare in the development of civil - military relations in Britain.
*JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY*