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From ‘Brother Boer’ to ‘Dirty Boers’: Colonizing the colonizers through the popular representations of the Boer in the British illustrated journal 1899–1902

Pages 137-156 | Published online: 07 Sep 2013

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Suggested citation

  • Popple, S. (2012), 'From 'Brother Boer' to 'Dirty Boers': Colonizing the coloni-zers through the popular representations of the Boer in the British illustra-ted journal 1899-1902', Journal of War & Culture Studies, 5: 2, pp. 137–156, doi: 10.1386/jwcs.5.2.137_1

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