[cross-posted at Albion’s Seedlings]
Miller, Carman, Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902
In the first part of 2005, after working my way through many of the books in the Annotated Bibliography from Jim Bennett’s The Anglosphere Challenge, I became interested in the dramatic turn-of-the-20th century rapprochement between Great Britain and the United States. Books written at the time, which promoted the unity of the English-speaking peoples, cited the Spanish-American War and the Boer War as events which changed the public’s mind about whether America and the British Empire could get along. I needed to familiarize myself with these two wars.
After I read First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country A World Power