Keith Wilson.


Keith Wilson, ed The International Impact of the Boer War. strange York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp ix, 214 $5995 ISBN 0-312-23973-4

Keith Wilson's collection of essays forward the Great Powers' view of the Boer War is a timely contribution to expose just celebrating its centennial. Britain's southward African test opened politicians' and soldiers' watchs to the difficulties of fighting the one and the other a regular and an irregular war for strategic and economic gain. While this was not the first time Britain had gone to war through her colonies, the conflict in southern Africa drove home the notion that no



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