Milner and the South African State," History Workshop journal 8 (1979): 50-80.
43. Phyllis Lewsen, John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman
(New Haven and London, 1982).
44. Milner Papers, 1:349-53.
45. W. K. Hancock, Smuts: The Sanguine Years (Cambridge, 1962); Kenneth
Ingham,jan Christian Smuts (London, 1986).
46. Debate on the origins of the war in 1899 started with the economic inter-
pretation ofHobson and still continues. Besidesworks listed in previous footnotes,
see:J.A. Hobson, The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects (London, 1900),
and Imperialism: A Study; Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, Africa and the
Victorians: The ()fficial Mind of Imperialism (London, 1961); J. S. Marais, The
Fallof Kruger's Republic (Oxford, 1961); G. H. L. Le May, British Supremacy in
South Africa, I899-1907
(Oxford, 1965); A. Atmore andS. Marks, "The Imperial
Factor in South Africa: Toward a Reassessment," Journal of Imperial and Com-
monwealth History 3 (October 1974): 105-39;
Robert V. Kubicek, Economic
Imperialism in Theory and Practice (Durham, N.C., 1979); Andrew Porter, The
Origins of the South African War (Manchester, 1980); and Bernard Porter, Britain,
Europe and the World, 1850- 1982 (London, 1983).