E. Maud Graham

A Canadian Girl in South Africa

A Teacher's Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902

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As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E. Maud Graham joined the Canadian contingent of forty teachers. Her eyewitness account reveals the complexity of relations and tensions at a controversial period in the histories of both Britain and South Africa. Graham presents a lively historical travel memoir, and the editors have provided rich political and historical context to her narrative in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dawson, Michael (Hrsg.) / Klausen, Susanne M. (Hrsg.) / Gidney, Catherine (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-77212-055-4
EAN: 9781772120554
Produktnummer: 34611243
Verlag: University of Alberta Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 297 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 61'564 KB

Über den Autor

E. Maud Graham (1876-1949) graduated from the University of Toronto in 1896 and taught in a variety of settings before becoming principal of the Girls' High School in Quebec City in 1907.