Mourning Becomes...: Post/Memory and Commemoration of the Concentration Camps of the South African War 1899-1902

by Liz Stanley and Elizabeth Stanley

This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719065682
• ISBN13: 9780719065682
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"