The American Revolution in Global Retreat.
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| Title: | The American Revolution in Global Retreat. |
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| Authors: | Rana, Aziz (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Dissent (0012-3846). Summer2026, Vol. 73 Issue 2, p7-17. 11p. |
| Subject Terms: | South African War, 1899-1902, Revolutions, Apartheid, British colonies |
| Geographic Terms: | South Africa, United Kingdom |
| Abstract: | In 1899, against the backdrop of the Second Boer War, F.W. Reitz, the Afrikaner State Secretary of the South African Republic, issued A Century of Wrong. Primarily authored by Jan Smuts, who would later become the founding father of apartheid South Africa, the book laid out a long-running list of grievances against Britain, above all defending the right of Afrikaner settlers to independence and self-government: "The hour has struck which will decide whether South Africa, in jealously guarding its liberty, will enter upon a new phase of its history, or whether our existence as a people will come to an end, whether we shall be exterminated in the deadly struggle for that liberty which we have prized above all earthly treasures." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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