THE AFRICAN COLONY. Studies in the Reconstruction

1903. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. Original dark blue cloth.

First Edition, first binding (some copies were put up in a green Times Book Club binding). As the Boer War wound down in 1901, Buchan received a two-year appointment to assist Lord Milner in the reconstruction of the Colony. Buchan, who had not been enthusiastic about the war, believing that the British, on balance, 'were only just in the right,' was enthusiastic about the reconstruction and entirely in sympathy with Milner's objectives [Smith]. This is Buchan's survey of the situation in South Africa after the war, with his thoughts about what should be (truncated) done next. Included are two large foldout color maps -- one of "South Africa" and one of "The New Colonies." The volume is bright and near-fine (very slightly rubbed at the extremities). Blanchard A15 (citing only one foldout map, not two). (Inventory #: 14119)