Canadian Girl in South Africa

A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av E. Maud Graham, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-05-22
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWayfarer
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Alberta Press
ISBN9781772120462
UtmärkelserWinner of AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show — Scholarly Typographic 2016 (United States)

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E. Maud Graham (1876–1949) graduated from the University of Toronto in 1896 and taught in a variety of settings before becoming principal of the Girls’ High School in Quebec City in 1907. Michael Dawson is Professor of History at St. Thomas University, living in Fredericton. Catherine Gidney is Adjunct Professor of History at St. Thomas University, living in Fredericton. Susanne M. Klausen is Associate Professor in History at Carleton University, and Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg. She lives in Gatineau.

Acknowledgements IntroductionCHAPTER I | The Call to South AfricaCHAPTER II | LondonCHAPTER III | Southampton to Cape TownCHAPTER Iv | On the KarooCHAPTER v | Norval’s Pont CampCHAPTER v I | Johannesburg and PretoriaCHAPTER v II | End of the Camp LifeCHAPTER v III | FauresmithCHAPTER Ix | KroonstadCHAPTER x | The Kafirs and the Labor QuestionCHAPTER x I | Repatriation and CompensationCHAPTER x II | Paupers and Government Relief WorksCHAPTER x III | Education and Church SchoolsCHAPTER xiv | The Farming QuestionCHAPTER xv | HomewardsBibliographyIndex

"Maud Graham’s 1905 book about her experiences in South Africa (1902–04) offers a fascinating perspective on the country.... Historians Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, and Susanne M. Klausen have made this primary document accessible by republishing it, adding footnotes to Graham’s text to help contemporary readers, and writing an extensive fifty-page introductory analysis of her account. They have included many of the wonderful photographs that appeared in Graham’s original publication and have added more from Graham’s private collection and relevant archives.... Graham’s account will help others understand how the British and English-speaking Canadians in South Africa perceived Boers and native southern Africans at the turn of the twentieth century, and her descriptions reveal details about everyday life in South Africa at an important moment of transition.... Graham’s book represents the perspective of a well-embedded outsider reporting to far-removed readers, rather than that of a female teacher involved in international or imperial education."