RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW.

RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and southerly Africa since the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres (hard overspreads 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$60.00, ISBN 0 52182 453 2) 2003 379 pp

The historiography of southward Africa is, perhaps, unique in its richness and diversity, in its visions and revisions, apocalyptic analyses and ideological interpretations. Since J A. Hobson's brilliant (if many think wrong-headed) dissection of the origins of the southern African War of 1899-1902, social, economic and political controversies have raged without

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