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12 - Imperial Wars and Their Aftermaths

from Part III - 1879: The Year of Liberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

Alan Lester ,
Kate Boehme  and
Peter Mitchell
Alan Lester
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Kate Boehme
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
Peter Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Summary

The origins and course of the Anglo-Zulu War and the death of the Prince Imperial; India as a model for a confederated South Africa; the course of the Second Anglo-Afghan War; Gladstone and the Midlothian campaign; the British disavowal of imperialism.

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Anglo-Zulu Wardisavowal
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Ruling the World
Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
 , pp. 317 - 335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Delius, P., The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers, and the British in the Nineteenth Century Transvaal, Ravan Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Laband, J., Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier, Yale University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Lee, J., Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present, Reaktion Books, 2018.Google Scholar
Robson, B., The Road to Kabul: The Second Afghan War, 1878–1881, Spellmount, 2007.Google Scholar

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