Transvaal-British Relations 1886 - 1899

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The paper focuses on the financial interests central to the advent of the Boer War and how this war impacted on British - Transvaal relations. It also looks at the role Britain had to play in the wider context of the Empire, and how the events that took place between 1886 - 1899 impacted on relations between British and other imperial powers, for example Denmark.

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"In the 1890's, Captain C Ballard of the Norfolk regiment wrote ' I am afraid we are fighting chiefly for the benefit of a lot of money - grubbing Jews.' This highlights important contemporary conceptions about why the Boer war was being fought and what led to it in the first place. Both at the time and afterwards, many people on both sides felt that Rand capitalists had a worryingly large influence over events in the Transvaal and even Kruger himself. The most famous proponent of the economic, capitalist view of bad relations between the Transvaal and Britain was Hobson. He wrote that British expansion in general was due to 'financial pressure groups in the metropolis finding new fields of investment in order to combat under consumption and circumvent the resultant over - saturated money market in the home country.'"

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