TY - JOUR
AU - Dubow, Saul
AB - Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of 'South Africanism', 1902-10 1 by Saul Dubow And so, you see, the true Imperialist is also the best South African. (Lord Milner, 1905) I believe in the British Empire . . . I believe in this my native land. (Percy Fitz- Patrick, 1903) More than fifteen years ago, Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido published `Lord Milner and the South African State' in the pages of this journal, an article which has exerted an important and enduring impact on the under- standing of late-nineteenth century British imperialism in the Southern African context. 2 Its significance has to do with its intervention into two contentious areas of debate. In the first place Marks and Trapido challenged the view that the origins of the South African (Boer) war of 1899-1902 could be explained in terms of the machinations and motivations of particular individuals (Rhodes, Milner, Chamberlain, and so on). Rather, they argued, the causes of the war had to be located within the deeper structural context of imperialism itself, in particular the need to maintain Britain's place at the centre of the international money market by securing effective control over the Transvaal's goldmining 
TI - Colonial Nationalism, The Milner Kindergarten and the Rise of ‘South Africanism’, 1902–101
JF - History Workshop Journal
DO - 10.1093/hwj/1997.43.53
DA - 1997-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/colonial-nationalism-the-milner-kindergarten-and-the-rise-of-south-yQebiguek4
SP - 53
EP - 86
VL - 1997
IS - 43
DP - DeepDyve
ER -