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The Jameson Raid: An American Imperial Plot?

Author(s) -

Robert I. Rotberg

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

the journal of interdisciplinary history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1530-9169

pISSN - 0022-1953

DOI - 10.1162/jinh_a_01341

Subject(s) - raid , unrest , history , consolidation (business) , white (mutation) , cape , ancient history , economic history , genealogy , archaeology , political science , law , politics , economics , biochemistry , accounting , computer science , computer hardware , gene , chemistry

South Africa’s Jameson Raid ultimately betrayed African rights by transferring power to white Afrikaner nationalists after helping to precipitate the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). The Raid also removed Cecil Rhodes from the premiership of the Cape Colony; strengthened Afrikaner control of the South African Republic (the Transvaal) and its world-supplying gold mines; and motivated the Afrikaner-controlled consolidation of segregation in the Union of South Africa, and thence apartheid. Perceptively, Charles van Onselen’s The Cowboy Capitalist links what happened on the goldfields of South Africa to earlier labor unrest in Idaho’s silver mines. Americans helped to originate the Raid and all of the events in its wake.

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