Book review

Abstract

Liz Stanley, Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, has  visited  South Africa  on  more  than  one  occasion  to  carry  out  research  on  the history, consequences and meaning of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902. She has already produced several noteworthy papers, articles in academic journals and other  publications  on  aspects  of  the  war.  Her  latest  book, Mourning becomes ... Post/memory,  commemoration  and  the  concentration  camps  of  the  South  African War,  “focuses  on  the  part  of  the  past  shared  by  Britain  and  South Africa  shaped by colonialism, imperialism, racism and nationalism, and marked by the unfolding ‘post/memory’ of the concentration camps.