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Barnes, Leonard : The New Boer War

The Hogarth Press, London, 1932

238 pages (complete). A gently aging, but rare copy of this coruscating investigation into racial policies in Colonial southern Africa. The dustjacket has a clear plastic protective cover that is very lightly worn. The dustjacket is foxed, tanned, worn all about. It is however, secure and sure. The boards are benign with some shelving wear to the edges, seams. They are comfortable and secure. Within, the contents are foxed throughout, particularly about the edges. The pages, though, are clean, clear, very confident, very assured. fk. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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Barnes, Leonard : The New Boer War

The Hogarth Press, London, 1932

Sunned and partially faded green cover. Light spotting to ends. xii, plus maps and 238 pages text. Becoming scarce. ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED WITH A TRACKING NUMBER. (QW-IWY-CtBy). Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

1st Edition

Barnes, Leonard : The New Boer War

(London, The Hogarth Press, 1932)

Crown 8vo; original green cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. xii + 238; 4 maps. Cloth rather sunned along margins of boards and on spine; spine fragmenting and split along lower joint; ownership inscription on front free endpaper; upper hinge somewhat tender; endpapers and prelims. show moderate foxing; tape stains to pastedowns; regular, light browning throughout. Fair condition. (Schapera, M115) An uncommon early treatise on racism in South Africa and neighbouring protectorates, published by the enterprising Labourite Leonard Woolf and his wife Virginia. 'Their policy was to publish "the best and most original," and they favoured obscure young authors - who, however, did not remain obscure very long. In time the Hogarth Press became a thriving enterprise.' - Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors. A Biographical Dictionary. 'Whenever the wretched condition of vassalage to which White South Africa has reduced the native people of the South African Union is described to English audiences, the usual reply is, Yes, it is all very dreadful; but what can we do about it? This book is primarily a rejoinder to that question, and an attempt to show that the non possumus attitude is, within the strictest limits of constitutional propriety, unjustified. As to the title, it is perhaps desirable to explain that the term "Boer," which strictly means "farmer" and no more, is not used with any special connotation of race; nor is the term "Afrikaner" so used in the text. The enemy of British native policy in Africa, as I emphasise in many places, is not merely the Dutch-speaking South African, but the Dutch-speaking South African reinforced by the bulk of the European settler class, of whatever race, throughout British Africa. The "war" of which I speak is thus in no sense a racial one. Indeed, many men of British stock are among the most determined votaries of the spirit I have called Afrikanerism. Nevertheless, as it is a matter of historical fact that the South African Dutch, by reason of their solidarity as a group and the inflexibility of their prejudices in native affairs, have succeeded in setting the standard of thought and feeling now generally accepted wherever European settlement exists, the title seems to me to have its suitability." - Author's preface.

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