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Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier Hardcover - 2014

by John Laband


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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and to narrate the experiences of the militarily outmatched African societies. Deftly fusing the widely differing European and African perspectives on events, John Laband details the fateful decisions of individual leaders and generals and explores why many Africans chose to join the British and colonial forces. The Xhosa, Zulu, and other African military cultures are brought to vivid life, showing how varying notions of warrior honor and manliness influenced the outcomes for African fighting men and their societies.

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  • Title Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier
  • Author John Laband
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New Haven
  • Date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300180312 / 0300180314
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.43 x 6.58 x 1.42 in (23.95 x 16.71 x 3.61 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Southern Africa
  • Library of Congress subjects Zulu War, 1879, Zululand (South Africa) - History, Military
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013041948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 968.404

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  • Choice, 12/01/2014, Page 675

About the author

John Laband is professor, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, and the author or editor of many books on Africa.
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 345 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's late nineteenth-century campaigns of colonial conquest, was not fought in isolation. Along with the two Anglo-Pedi Wars, the Ninth Cape Frontier War and the Northern Border War, it was one in a brutal series of interconnected and overlapping wars which the British waged between 1877-1879 to crush and disarm the remaining independent black states of South Africa. For the first time, this book weaves the story of this cluster of conflicts into a single, connected whole. Deftly fusing the widely differing African and European perspectives on events, John Laband probes the fateful decisions taken by statesmen and military commanders, analyses military operations and their destructive impact on combatants and civilians alike, and explores why so many Africans chose to fight as auxiliaries and levies alongside the British instead of against… Read More
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 345 pages : illus. 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Prologue : The shadow of Isandlwana ; Bushman's river pass -- The Boer -- Pedi War, 1876 -- 1877 : Bopedi ; Sobhuza's dream ; 'The boers are killing me' ; The 'black conspiracy' -- The Ninth Cape Frontier War, 1877 -- 1878 : EmaXhoseni ; 'They must be humbled and subdued' ; 'I am in a corner' ; Calling in the 'amaJohnnies' ; Not the 'white man's dogs' ; 'Rather like a rat hunt' -- The Northern Border War, 1878 : A 'hideous and disgusting place' ; Resisting with 'fixity of purpose' -- The First Anglo-Pedi War, 1878 : 'The ground was his' -- The Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 : Preparing to 'draw the monster's teeth and claws' ; The meat of heroes ; 'We shall go and eat up the white… Read More
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