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Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902

Author : Birgit Susanne Seibold
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838263200
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1899-1902 written by Birgit Susanne Seibold and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black spot—the one very black spot—in the picture is the frightful mortality in the Concentration Camps. I entirely agree with you in thinking, that while a hundred explanations may be offered and a hundred excuses made, they do not really amount to any adequate defence. I should much prefer to say at once, so far as the Civil authorities are concerned, that we were suddenly confronted with a problem not of our making, with which it was beyond our power properly to grapple. And no doubt its vastness was not realised soon enough. It was not till six weeks or two months ago that it dawned on me personally, (I cannot speak for others), that the enormous mortality was not merely incidental to the first formation of the camps and the sudden inrush of thousands of people already sick and starving, but was going to continue. The fact that it continues, is no doubt a condemnation of the Camp system. The whole thing, I think now, has been a mistake.Alfred Milner to Joseph Chamberlain, December 7th, 1901The British scorched earth policy during the last phase of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 led to the burning of farms, the destruction of homesteads, harvests and livestock and to the internment of the civil population in the so-called concentration camps. There, people—mainly women and children—died of malnutrition and diseases such as measles, pneumonia and typhoid. The death rate in the camps was so high—nearly 28,000 white Boers succumbed—that the English population, renowned for its gallantry and chivalry, was consternated. Lloyd George blamed his government for its policy of extermination, Campbell-Bannerman spoke of methods of barbarism, and philanthropic institutions protested, led by Emily Hobhouse, who was the first civilian to investigate the conditions of the camps. The government reacted and sent a ladies' commission under the leadership of Millicent Garrett Fawcett to South Africa.Birgit Seibold's study is the first to compare the 'inofficial' and the official report on the camps and to give an insight into conditions in each of the thirty-three white concentration camps. Based on first-hand research among the Hobhouse manuscripts, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable.

Emily Hobhouse

Author : Elsabé Brits
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472140913
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse written by Elsabé Brits and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. 'Here was Emily . . . in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unprecedented, intimate angle on the real Emily' Elsabé Brits has drawn on a treasure trove of previously private sources, including Emily Hobhouse's diaries, scrap-books and numerous letters that she discovered in Canada, to write a revealing new biography of this remarkable Englishwoman. Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, but she is still revered in South Africa, where she worked so courageously, selflessly and tirelessly to save lives and ameliorate the suffering of thousands of women and children interned in camps set up by British forces during the Anglo-Boer War, in which it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died; and where her ashes are enshrined in the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein. During the First World War, Hobhouse was an ardent pacifist. She organised the writing, signing and publishing in January 1915 of the 'Open Christmas Letter' addressed 'To the Women of Germany and Austria'. In an attempt to initiate a peace process, she also secretly metwith the German foreign minister Gottlieb von Jagow in Berlin, for which some branded her a traitor. In the war's immediate aftermath she worked for the Save the Children Fund in Leipzig and Vienna, feeding daily for over a year thousands of children, who would otherwise have starved. She later started her own feeding scheme to alleviate ongoing famine. Despite having been instrumental in saving thousands of lives during two wars, Hobhouse died alone - spurned by her country, her friends and even some of her relatives. Brits brings Emily's inspirational and often astonishing story, spanning three continents, back into the light.

Emily Hobhouse

Author : Emily Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse written by Emily Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emily Hobhouse

Author : Elsabé Brits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780624076629
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse written by Elsabé Brits and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That Bloody Woman

Author : John Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Bloody Woman written by John Hall and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Bloody Woman is the story of a discarded heroine. Now virtually forgotten, Emily Hobhouse was in her time one of the most controversial figures in the world, hailed as a second Joan of Arc or Florence Nightingale yet denounced as a traitor to her country. Lord Kitchener ordered her forcible deportation on a troopship and Joseph Chamberlain wondered if she posed a threat to the whole British Empire. But to her friend Mahatma Gandhi, one of a tiny minority who admired her pacifist campaigns through two wars, she was one of the noblest and bravest of women.

Emily Hobhouse and the British Concentration Camp Scandal

Author : Emily Hobhouse
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781782826118
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse and the British Concentration Camp Scandal written by Emily Hobhouse and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless female champion for justice and humanity Today, the term 'concentration camp' is synonymous with the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Nevertheless, concentration camps were not a Nazi innovation, for the British created them during the Boer War in South Africa at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In an attempt to apply pressure on men serving with Boer forces to capitulate, the British extensively burned Boer homesteads and farms, slaughtered their livestock, dispossessed families of their property and forcibly incarcerated women and children in concentration camps. Emily Hobhouse, a British woman born before her time, was a welfare campaigner, feminist and an activist for women's suffrage. She was aware of the social injustice of the camps, and of the terrible conditions in them which resulted in widespread deprivation, hunger and death from disease among the inmates. Hobhouse made it her mission to bring these outrages to public awareness and worked tirelessly for improved conditions in the camps and, ultimately, for their abolition. She was the bane of the British authorities and an abiding heroine to the South African people. In this, her own book on the subject, she exposes a little known imperial scandal. It was originally published at the time of the war, under the title 'The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell'. This Leonaur edition has been enhanced by the inclusion of many illustrations and photographs which were not included when the book was first published. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Living the Love

Author : Jennifer Hobhouse Balme
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460275985
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Living the Love written by Jennifer Hobhouse Balme and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918 Emily Hobhouse was 58 and a partial invalid. She could have retired to her beloved Cornwall to write her memoirs but the plight of the children of Europe, half starved by war restrictions, called her to new works. Helped by the Save the Children Fund and people of the South Africa, her main scheme was to provide meals for thousands of children in the city of Leipzig, Germany. Then the South Africans remembering how she had helped and encouraged their own women and children in the Anglo Boer war of 1899-1902 gave her money for a house in Cornwall where she could write. Her ashes were interred in the War Memorial in South Africa dedicated to the women and children whom long ago she had done so much to help. Though often sick hers was a life of Service and shows what determination can achieve.

To Love One's Enemies

Author : Jennifer Hobhouse Balme
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838203416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book To Love One's Enemies written by Jennifer Hobhouse Balme and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and above all a humanitarian. She worked tirelessly for the disadvantaged and, in the case of the South African women and children who were herded into concentration camps by Lord Kitchener, was relentless in expounding their cause. This took great courage. She was deported from Cape Town, and was unable to get legal redress. Emily Hobhouse's young life was spent in a tiny village in east Cornwall where her father was Rector and it was only when he died that she was able to expand her horizons. She was 35 and untrained. She went to Minnesota, USA, to do welfare work for Cornish miners and formed an unfortunate relationship with a man who became Mayor of the town. They planned to marry and live in Mexico. Emily spent a trying time until the engagement was broken off just before the Boer War started. After the war she travelled through the ravaged areas of South Africa and devised a successful scheme of home industries for young girls on isolated farms. Illness forced her to seek refuge in Italy where she remained almost to the beginning of World War I, and began her famous corre-spondence first with J.C. Smuts and then with Isabel Steyn. Her comments on the events of the day show unusual foresight. She was loved by the people of South Africa and admired by those like Mahatma Gandhi who asked for her help. She was a bit of a painter, a writer and an entertainer, and in spite of ill-health travelled easily between countries, even in the midst of the first World War when she went to Germany, and hoped to obtain peace. Returning to Europe after that war Emily Hobhouse put into a place a number of schemes to help the impoverished, but the cry of the children of Leipzig won her particular sympathy, and with the help of the Save the Children Fund and later the South Africans she devised a feeding scheme for them. The South Africans so admired her that they clubbed together to buy her a little house in Cornwall, at St. Ives. Later Emily moved to London where she died, 8th June 1926. Her remains were cremated and the ashes buried at the foot of the memorial for the women and children who died in the Anglo Boer War for whom she had worked so hard. This book contains an outline of Emily Hobhouse's life and work including much new material; official and un-official records of the Concentration Camps set up by Lord Kitchener in the Anglo Boer War; many letters, and correspondence with J.C. Smuts and Isabel Steyn, wife of the ex-President of the Orange Free State.

Emily Hobhouse

Author : Emily Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse written by Emily Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emily Hobhouse. A Memoir, Etc. [With Portraits.].

Author : Anna Ruth FRY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse. A Memoir, Etc. [With Portraits.]. written by Anna Ruth FRY and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Compassionate Englishwoman

Author : Robert Eales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781775822141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The Compassionate Englishwoman written by Robert Eales and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1890s London, the upper class Emily Hobhouse hears that women and children caught in the Boer War are having a difficult time. Concerned, she goes to South Africa ... to investigate and assist. ... [W]hat she finds is disturbing. The British Army is clearing the land and herding hundreds of thousands of people into concentration camps where the conditions are putting their lives at risk. She urges the local authorities to provide better care and support - to no avail. Deeply concerned, she returns to Britain to plead that immediate action be taken. ... She is received with studied indifference by the government and is attacked in the press. Eventually her work saves many lives, but not before tens of thousands have died. ... Though she focussed on a humanitarian cause, her heroic mission could unwittingly have brought down the British government, and her story was smothered. In this book her courageous and inspirational work is once again brought to life."--Back cover.

War Without Glamour

Author : Emily Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954476144
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book War Without Glamour written by Emily Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Hobhouse was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British administered concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer women and children during the Second Boer War.This book is a facsimile of the book that was first published in 1924, with diaries of South African women.

The Labour Movement

Author : Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Labour Movement written by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War

Author : Elizabeth van Heyningen
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1431405442
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War written by Elizabeth van Heyningen and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in depth the very rich and extensive official documents in South African and British archives. It provides a fresh perspective on a topic that has understandably aroused huge emotions because of the great numbers of Afrikaners, especially women and children, who died in the camps. This fascinating social history overturns many of the previously held assumptions and conclusions on all sides, and is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than viewing the camps simply as the product of the scorched-earth policies of the war, the author sets them in the larger context of colonialism at the end of the 19th century, arguing that British views on poverty, poor relief and the management of colonial societies all shaped their administration. The book also attempts to explain why the camps were so badly administered in the first place, and why reform was so slow, suggesting that divided responsibility, ignorance, political opportunism and a failure to understand the needs of such institutions all played their part.

No Place For a Lady

Author : Ann Harries
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408841835
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book No Place For a Lady written by Ann Harries and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is big and it is clever ... Harries writes with verve and intelligence' The Times 'A fine piece of writing, subtle and never sentimental' Daily Mail 'A sweeping story of love and tragedy, it is packed with unforgettable characters' Choice A thrilling and sweeping novel from the award-winning author of Manly Pursuits The Boer War is razing South Africa to the ground. In the midst of these horrors are three women fighting for love, survival and justice: Sarah, an angelically beautiful nurse from England; Louise, her madcap friend; and the dynamic campaigner, Emily Hobhouse. As their dramas unfold, so too does the history of the war - the events that turned what was intended to be a quick annexation of the Boers into a protracted, savage conflict. In this compelling novel, with its unforgettable characters, Ann Harries brings South Africa's colonial past vividly alive.

To End All Wars

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547549210
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book To End All Wars written by Adam Hochschild and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before... World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. To End All Wars focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Many of these dissenters were thrown in jail for their opposition to the war, from a future Nobel Prize winner to an editor behind bars who distributed a clandestine newspaper on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain’s most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. Hochschild forces us to confront the big questions: Why did so many nations get so swept up in the violence? Why couldn’t cooler heads prevail? And can we ever avoid repeating history?

Emily Hobhouse

Author : Emily Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780798139281
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Emily Hobhouse written by Emily Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous tend to become slotted into cliche. This has been the fate of Emily Hobhouse, an Englishwoman by turns reviled and revered for her controversial humanitarian role in the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War. These spirited, on-the-spot letters selected by herself span not only her well-known work in the camps, but her forceful and imaginative role in the ruined former republics after the war. They rescue the woman from the myth. And what a woman She is seen against an unforgettable backdrop of war-time civilian experience. While the letters are eminently readable in themselves -- one comes to regret that Miss Hobhouse destroyed the only novel she ever wrote -- they ring with persistent historical parallels that will not escape the politically aware contemporary reader. The letters are liberally annotated and the notes and appendices constitute a treasure trove of quotations, anecdote and sidelight: a browser's delight. There is a generous photographic section, highlighting various phases of Emily Hobhouse's life and her South African years.