A Canadian Girl in South Africa : A Teacher's Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902 (Wayfarer)

Graham, E. Maud/ Dawson, Michael (EDT)/ Gidney, Catherine (EDT)

University of Alberta Press（2015/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781772120462
• DDC分類 968.048092

Full Description

As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian contingent of forty teachers. Her eyewitness account reveals the complexity of relations and tensions at a controversial period in the histories of both Britain and South Africa. Graham presents a lively historical travel memoir, and the editors have provided rich political and historical context to her narrative in the Introduction and generous annotations. This is a rare primary source for experts in Colonial Studies, Women's Studies, and Canadian, South African, and British Imperial History. Readers with an interest in the South African War will be intrigued by Graham's observations on South African society at the end of the Victorian era.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

CHAPTER I | The Call to South Africa
CHAPTER II | London
CHAPTER III | Southampton to Cape Town
CHAPTER Iv | On the Karoo
CHAPTER v | Norval's Pont Camp
CHAPTER v I | Johannesburg and Pretoria
CHAPTER v II | End of the Camp Life
CHAPTER v III | Fauresmith
CHAPTER Ix | Kroonstad
CHAPTER x | The Kafirs and the Labor Question
CHAPTER x I | Repatriation and Compensation
CHAPTER x II | Paupers and Government Relief Works
CHAPTER x III | Education and Church Schools
CHAPTER xiv | The Farming Question
CHAPTER xv | Homewards

Bibliography
Index