DAVID OMISSI is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hull. His books include The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940 and Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letter, 1914-1918. - ANDREW THOMPSON is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History the University of Leeds. He is the author of Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c.1880-1932.

'This volume is a must for the South Africa specialist's collection and will be of interest to many others besides.' - Andrew Porter, King's College, London, South African Historical Journal '...a stimulating work, empirically-rooted, balanced, often ground-breaking, and essential reading for anyone wanting some solid facts and thinking about the effects of the South African war.' - Bernard Porter, English Historical Review '...makes a compelling case that understanding the war's effects means looking beyond contemporaries' assessments...' - Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

• Preface List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Investigating the Impact of the War; D.Omissi & A.Thompson PART I: THE SOUTH AFRICAN IMPACT The War in Twentieth-Century Afrikaner Consciousness; A.Grundlingh Black Communities in the Cape and Natal; B.Nasson Capitalism and the War; I.Smith Imagining the New South Africa in the Era of Reconstruction; S.Dubow PART II: THE BRITISH IMPACT Propaganda, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War; A.Thompson The Making of a War Correspondent: Lionel James of The Times : J.Beaumont The British Peace Movement and the War; P.Laity Preaching Imperialism: Weslyan Methodism and the War; G.Cuthbertson British Radicalism, the South African Crisis, and the Origins of the Theory of Financial Imperialism; P.Cain 'National Efficiency' and the 'Lessons' of the War; G.Searle PART III: THE IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire; D.Omissi Canada; P.Buckner Building Nations: Australia and New Zealand; L.Trainor 'The World's No Bigger than a Kraal': The War and International Opinion in the First Age of 'Globalization': D.Lowry Afterword: The Imprint of the War; J.Darwin

DAVID OMISSI is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hull. His books include The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940 and Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letter, 1914-1918. - ANDREW THOMPSON is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History the University of Leeds. He is the author of Imperial Britain: The Empire in British Politics, c.1880-1932.

'This volume is a must for the South Africa specialist's collection and will be of interest to many others besides.' - Andrew Porter, King's College, London, South African Historical Journal '...a stimulating work, empirically-rooted, balanced, often ground-breaking, and essential reading for anyone wanting some solid facts and thinking about the effects of the South African war.' - Bernard Porter, English Historical Review '...makes a compelling case that understanding the war's effects means looking beyond contemporaries' assessments...' - Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

• Preface List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Investigating the Impact of the War; D.Omissi & A.Thompson PART I: THE SOUTH AFRICAN IMPACT The War in Twentieth-Century Afrikaner Consciousness; A.Grundlingh Black Communities in the Cape and Natal; B.Nasson Capitalism and the War; I.Smith Imagining the New South Africa in the Era of Reconstruction; S.Dubow PART II: THE BRITISH IMPACT Propaganda, Philanthropy and Commemoration: British Society and the War; A.Thompson The Making of a War Correspondent: Lionel James of The Times : J.Beaumont The British Peace Movement and the War; P.Laity Preaching Imperialism: Weslyan Methodism and the War; G.Cuthbertson British Radicalism, the South African Crisis, and the Origins of the Theory of Financial Imperialism; P.Cain 'National Efficiency' and the 'Lessons' of the War; G.Searle PART III: THE IMPERIAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire; D.Omissi Canada; P.Buckner Building Nations: Australia and New Zealand; L.Trainor 'The World's No Bigger than a Kraal': The War and International Opinion in the First Age of 'Globalization': D.Lowry Afterword: The Imprint of the War; J.Darwin