The Lion and the Springbok
Britain and South Africa since the Boer War

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
Select bibliography
Index.

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