| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Denis Judd and Keith Surridge. The Boer War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. Pp. xvi, 352. $29.95.

The South African War of 1899–1902, popularly known as the Boer War, holds striking parallels with the contemporary world. In this conflict between the British Empire and the Afrikaner republics, the world's foremost imperial colossus waged war for questionable purposes against an army that it dwarfed in size and capacity, endured an unanticipated insurgency after the engagement had apparently been "won," and earned harsh criticism for its actions in the court of world public opinion. Denis Judd and Keith Surridge offer the latest assessment of this much studied event, presenting a "new history of the Boer War" that revisits "the great residual mass of mythology attaching to the war" (p. xv) and provides a substantial reexamination of the fighting itself.

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