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Arthur M. Mann
A little-known early writer on South Africa, he is best remembered for books that argued strongly about Boer society and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. His surviving work has the feel of firsthand controversy rather than distant summary.
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The Boer in Peace and War
by Arthur M. Mann
About the author
Arthur M. Mann is a notably obscure author, and only a small amount of reliable biographical information is easy to confirm. His best-known surviving book is The Boer in Peace and War (1900), and that book identifies him as the author of The Truth From Johannesburg, an earlier work on South African affairs.
From the titles of those books, Mann appears to have written closely around the politics and public debates of the Boer War era, with a particular focus on Johannesburg and Boer life in South Africa. Because standard reference sources located here do not provide a fuller verified life story, it is safest to remember him as an early twentieth-century commentator whose work is mainly of historical interest today.
No clearly verified portrait of this specific author was found in the sources reviewed for this entry.