Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918

Stephen M. Miller, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S. is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine. He is the author of Lord Methuen and the British Army (Cass, 1999) and Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen Soldiers and the South African War (Oklahoma, 2007).

• 1. Introduction // Stephen M. MillerThe Experience of Soldiers in South Africa2. “Valuable, Gallant and Faithful Assistants”: The Fingo (or Mfengu) as Colonial Military Allies during the Cape-Xhosa Wars, 1835-1881 // Tim Stapleton3. African Levies in Natal and Zululand, 1838-1906 // John Laband & Paul Thompson4. From Mercenaries to Military Settlers: The British German Legion, 1854-1861 // John Laband5. Blacks who backed the Boers: Republican Commando Auxiliaries in the Anglo-Boer or South African War, 1899-1902 // Bill NassonShaping the Politics of Africa6. British Military Perspectives on Africa in the Late Nineteenth Century // Edward M. Spiers7. War Secretaries and their Commanders-in-Chief: South Africa, Professional Rivalries, and the Politics of Reform // Jeffrey Lee Meriwether8. Confronted with the Facts: Why the Boer Delegates at Vereeniging Accepted a Humiliating Peace to End the South African War, 31 May 1902 // Fransjohan PretoriusThe Role of Officers in Africa9. Manipulating the "Modern Curse of Armies": Wolseley, the Press, and the Ashanti War, 1873-1874 // Ian F. W. Beckett10. Sir Redvers Buller and the South African Light Horse // James Thomas11. Rural Struggles and the Politics of a Colonial Command: The Southern Mounted Rifles of the Transvaal Volunteers, 1905-1912 // Ian van der Waag12. New Light on the East African Theater of the Great War: A Review Essay of English-Language Sources // Bruce VandervortIndex