1st Edition
Gladstone and Kruger Liberal Government & Colonial 'Home Rule' 1880-85
Foreword
Illustrations
Maps
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Boer and Briton in Southern Africa: Toward Another Ireland?
2. Gladstone and the Traditional Approach: Principles and the Problem 1880
3. Revolt in the Transvaal: Policy in Flux: A ‘Loss of Nerve’ in Official Circles
4. The Pretoria Convention: Boers and Fenians 1881: Attempts at Conciliation
5. Trek Without an End: Policy on a Turbulent Frontier, Boers and Fenians 1882: Attractions and Coercion
6. Enter Lord Derby: Inactivity as a Principle of Policy: Conciliation in Retreat
7. The London Convention ‘Home Rule’ for the Transvaal, 1884
8. Chamberlain and the Liberal Cabinet ‘Go Jingo’? Despatching an Imperial Expedition, 1885
9. Conclusion: Gladstonian Liberalism and Afrikaner ‘Nationalism’
Biographical Notes
Appendix I: Text of the Pretoria Convention, 3 August 1881
Appendix II: Text of the London Convention, 27 February 1884
Appendix III: War Office Memorandum 1884 ‘Position of Affairs in the Cape Colonies and the Transvaal’
Appendix IV: Colonial Office Memorandum 1885: ‘Vacillation in Policy in South Africa’
Appendix V: Private Letter: Sir Hercules Robinson to Lord Derby, 8 May 1885, on ‘Zambesia’ and Northern Expansion.
Biography
Deryck Schreuder
