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| Illustrations | vii | |
| Acknowledgements | ix | |
| Maps | x | |
| Preface | xv | |
| Introduction: An Irrepressible Conflict? | 1 | |
| Part I | The Background to the War | |
| 1. | British Rule, Confrontation and Compromise, 1815-1886 | 17 |
| 2. | The Descent to War, 1886-1899 | 32 |
| Part II | The Combatants | |
| 3. | The British Army | 55 |
| 4. | Rallying the Empire | 76 |
| 5. | The Boers | 89 |
| Part III | The Campaigns, 1899-1902 | |
| 6. | The Opening Battles (October 1899) | 105 |
| 7. | The Disasters of Black Week (December 1899: the battles of Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso, and their less disastrous prelude) | 118 |
| 8. | Humiliation (January and February 1900: the battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz) | 131 |
| 9. | 'I think God we have kept the flag flying' (The besieged towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking) | 138 |
| 10. | The Turn of the Tide (February 1900: the relief of Kimberley, the battle of Paardeberg, the relief of Ladysmith) | 159 |
| 11. | Marching to Pretoria (and Johannesburg) (The British advance through the Boer republics, the relief of Mafeking, the start of the guerrilla war) | 173 |
| 12. | Methods of Barbarism? (December 1900 to October 1901: the guerrilla war, farm burning, the concentration camps) | 187 |
| 13. | Seeking Peace (March 1900 to June 1901) | 197 |
| 14. | The Final Battles (May 1901 to May 1902) | 208 |
| Part IV | The Ambivalences of War | |
| 15. | Big Business, Capitalism and the War | 221 |
| 16. | The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars? | 228 |
| 17. | The Pro-Boers | 238 |
| 18. | Foreigners and the War | 247 |
| 19. | The Press and the War | 251 |
| 20. | The Literature of the War | 257 |
| Part V | The Peace | |
| 21. | The Talks Begin | 269 |
| 22. | Taking Stock | 281 |
| 23. | Peace at Last | 287 |
| The Aftermath: Winners and Losers | 298 | |
| Appendix 1 | Chronology | 303 |
| Appendix 2 | Some Leading Figures | 308 |
| Appendix 3 | Abbreviations | 311 |
| Notes | 312 | |
| Bibliography | 323 | |
| Index | 332 |
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