The Lion and the Springbok
Britain and South Africa since the Boer War
- Authors:
- Ronald Hyam, University of Cambridge
- Peter Henshaw, University of Western Ontario
- Date Published: September 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521041386
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This unique account of the "uneasy special relationship" between Britain and South Africa surveys all political, economic, cultural, and geostrategic aspects. Starting from the bruising experience of the South African Boer War, Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw trace the countries' deteriorating relationship through a series of crises to South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth in 1961 and subsequent return, post-apartheid, in 1994.
Read more- The first study of its kind
- Tells the dramatic story of South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth in 1961 under the shadow of apartheid
- Based on extensive archival research
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"...the study raises expectations that are not disappointed. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and forcefully argued, it will rapidly establish itself as indispensable reading...a powerful work of synthesis that provides a running commentary on a burgeoning body of literature on Anglo-South African relations." American Historical Review
See more reviews"...an expertly researched account...will make a fine addition to the shelf of any imperial scholar." History
"This is a valuable book that brings together a wealth of solid research and original analysis and should stimulate debate and a more complex, sophisticated interpretation of British-South African relations. It belongs in all research libraries and on the bookshelves of imperial scholars." International Journal of African Historical Studies
"Although most of its chapters have been previously published, The Lion and the Springbok contains much that is useful, and also much that is controversial, for scholars and students interested in governmental reactions between Britain and South Africa over the past hundred years." - The Journal of Modern History Alan Lester, University of Sussex
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- Date Published: September 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521041386
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 150 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.587kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 3 maps 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Frontispiece
List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. The uneasy special relationship: dynamics and divergencies
2. Breakdown: into war, 1895–9
3. Post-war: the myth of magnanimity, 1905–7
4. African interests and the South Africa Act, 1908–10
5. 'Greater South Africa': the struggle for the High Commission Territories, 1910–61
6. The economic dimension: South Africa and the sterling area, 1931–61
7. Britain, the United Nations and the 'South African disputes', 1946–61
8. The political consequences of Seretse Khama and Ruth, 1948–52
9. Containing Afrikanerdom: the geopolitical origins of the Central African Federation, 1948–53
10. Strategy and the transfer of Simon's Town, 1948–57
11. The parting of the ways: the departure of South Africa from the Commonwealth, 1951–61
12. Enfeebled lion? How South Africans viewed Britain, 1945–61
13. Springbok reviled: some British reactions to apartheid, 1948–94
Epilogue: the relationship restored: the return of the new South Africa to the Commonwealth, 1994
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