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A war of words : Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African war
(1899-1902)
Kuitenbrouwer, J.J.V.
Publication date 2010
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Kuitenbrouwer, J. J. V. (2010). A war of words : Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African war (1899-1902). Eigen Beheer.
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Table of contents
Preface i
Introduction 1
Historiography: Britain 3
Historiography: the Netherlands 10
Structure of the thesis 17
Notes on vocabulary 20
Part I: Principles of propaganda (1880-1899) Chapter 1: ‘New Holland’ in South Africa? Building a bridgehead between the Netherlands and the Boer republics 23
Pro-Boers in the Netherlands 25
Hollanders in South Africa 34
The Jameson Raid: a catalyst for pro-Boer propaganda 43
Conclusion 50
Chapter 2: ‘Blacks, Boers, and British’. South Africa in Dutch literature 53
Adventurers and armchair scholars 56
The ambivalences of stamverwantschap 64
The language question 69
Dutch views on English Africana 75
The ‘native’ question 81
The Uitlander question 86
Conclusion 90
Part II: A war of words (1899-1902) Chapter 3: A ‘factory of lies’? The lines of communication of the Boers and their supporters 93
Boer diplomats 97
Fraying at the edges: the Dutch policy of neutrality 104
Repatriates and refugees 107
Evading censorship 116
Letters from the front line 122
Chapter 4: ‘A campaign of the pen’. The Dutch pro-Boer organisations 129
The NZAV from within 132
Pro-Boers and pillarisation 137
‘A campaign of the pen’: the ANV press office 139 ‘Practical support’ or ‘impractical plans’: emigration schemes 149
Fundraising 155
Conclusion 162
Chapter 5: ‘Dum-dums of public opinion’.
Pro-Boer propaganda, October 1899 - June 1900 165
‘We know so well how you drifted into this war’ 167
‘Afrika voor den Afrikaner’? 172
The Boer people’s army 178
Britain’s grave 186
From The Hague to Derdepoort: war atrocities 192
Conclusion 199
Chapter 6: ‘All will be well!’ Pro-Boer propaganda, June 1900 - June 1902 201
After the British occupation 203
Bittereinders and Handsoppers 206
‘Methods of barbarism’ 212
‘The English have a red haze before their eyes’: farm-burning 216 ‘That lethal idleness’ of being locked up: the treatment of PoWs 219 ‘A policy of torturing women’: concentration camps 224
The Peace of Vereeniging 231
Conclusion 236
Part III: The aftermath of pro-Boer propaganda (post-1902)
Chapter 7: ‘Whoever wants to create a future for himself, cannot lose sight of the past’.
The aftermath of pro-Boer propaganda 239
Pro-Boers and public opinion after 1902 241 The Netherlands and Afrikaner nationalism 248 Building blocks for Afrikaner nationalism: Willem Leyds and historiography 257
Conclusion 277
Conclusion 279
The pro-Boer network and public opinion in the Netherlands 279
The Dutch and the Boers 282
The aftermath of the pro-Boer movement 284 Britishness and stamverwantschap 285
Summary/Samenvatting 289
Abbreviations 305
Illustrations 306
