Cover illustrations: Top: street view of London, in or before 1896. Left: Bank of England. Right: Royal Exchange. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal. Bottom: postcard, expressing French sympathy for the Boer cause. It depicts the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain as pickpocket, grabbed by Transvaal Boer President Kruger.
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