How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… well as in several ancillary theatres of the first world war. Faced with manpower shortages, British imperialists had … But it is too easy to conclude, especially from an Anglo-American perspective, that Germany broke from the norms … for Africa’s gold fields helped trigger the second Boer war, during which the British, interning Afrikaner women …