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A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher´s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902
Maud E. Graham
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Description for A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher´s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902
Paperback. Canadian woman writes of teaching in concentration camps following South African War in 1902. Editor(s): Dawson, Michael; Gidney, Catherine; Klausen, Susanne M. Series: Wayfarer. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; 3JJC; BM; HBJH; HBWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Wayfarer
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Alberta, Canada
ISBN
9781772120462
SKU
V9781772120462
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About Maud E. Graham
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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher´s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902
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 ... Read more