HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pacificism, Asymmetric Warfare, Mahatma Gandhi
22 Oct 2020
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Can also be called anglo-boer but also the south african war. War also included groups like the indians who lived in the area at the time. Mohandas ghandi also served in the war in the indian ambulance corps. It was not entirely a white man"s war: significance of the south african war. The idea of a "people"s war" and "total war". The first war in the age of mass media: publicity, propaganda and public opinion demonstrate the support for empire. Britain"s settler colonies, australia, canada and new zealand demonstrated a new spirit of imperial unity. Highlights dominance of imperial fervor but generates an anti-imperial, anti-war, pacificist tradition: causes of the war. Citizens had to be a citizen for 14 years before they could vote in south africa. Boers used africans as slaves and exploited in brutal ways. Diamonds were found in kimberley in south africa in "the big hole". This war cost about billion in today"s currency.
