All modern wars are global in reach, drawing in international actors as active participants or concerned observers no matter how peripheral the conflict might at first appear. With this in mind, it is received wisdom among historians that the South African War “was not simply a small colonial war of local significance, but was rather a conflict with global ramifications.” The war was global in that it shaped worldwide opinion on British conduct, relied on precedent elsewhere, and informed the development of wartime strategies beyond southern Africa.1 But there is value in studying social worlds and local experiences of the 1899–1902 conflict as much as its global impact, especially when we consider the almost civil-war characteristics which pitted neighbour against

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战争世界：南非战争新历史中的地方与全球

所有现代战争都是全球性的，无论冲突最初看起来多么外围，都会吸引国际参与者作为积极参与者或关注的观察者。考虑到这一点，历史学家普遍认为，南非战争“不仅仅是一场具有地方意义的小型殖民战争，而是一场具有全球影响的冲突”。这场战争是全球性的，因为它塑造了全世界对英国行为的看法，依赖其他地方的先例，并为南部非洲以外的战时战略的发展提供了信息。 1 但是，研究 1899-1902 年冲突的社会世界和当地经验同样有价值作为它的全球影响，特别是当我们考虑到近乎内战的特点时，邻国与之抗衡