Abstract
Abstract:
The British military conquest and political annexation of the former South
African Republic (ZAR) and Orange Free State at the end of the South African
War/Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) meant that the break-away Boer
republics were finally integrated within British South Africa and the wider British
Empire, a goal that elites in London had pursued since the British government
annexed the fledgling Natalia Republic within the British-controlled Natal
Colony in 1843.3 Among a broader suite of reforms, reconstruction officials
established government forestry programs in the Transvaal and Orange Free State
(renamed the Orange River Colony from 1900–1910...