Imperial War & British Working Class Working Class

First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for selfdoubt. There was an increasing fear that the place in the sun that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the United States of America. Doubts arouse about her economic strength, her military prowess, even the viability of the twoparty system. The South African War of 18991902 served for a time as the focus for all the fears that many Britons had about their countrys future. The patriotism it engendered was exaggerated by the early military failures to resolve the problem of the troublesome Boers. The focus of the text is on workingclass attitudes and reactions to the Boer War 18991902. | Richard Price An Imperial War & the British Working Class: Working-Class