| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 men' ; 'How can we give you mercy?' ; 'No quarter, boys!' ; 'The army is now thoroughly beaten' -- The Second Anglo-Pedi War, 1879 : 'Short, sharp and decisive' -- Conclusion : Paying the price |
| Summary |
"The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's lte ninetweenth-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. [Fusing] the widely differing African and European perspectives on events, [the author] probes the fateful decisions taken by statesmen and military commandrs, 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 Bruitish instead of against them. ..."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-331) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Zulu War, 1879.
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Zulu (African people) -- History -- 19th century
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Sociology, Military -- South Africa -- Zululand
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Sociology, Military
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Zulu (African people)
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Zulukrieg
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Zulukriget 1879.
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Zulu (folk) -- historia.
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| SUBJECT |
Zululand (South Africa) -- History, Military -- 19th century
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South Africa -- Zululand
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Südafrika
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013041948 |
| ISBN |
9780300206197 |
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0300206194 |
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9781306562553 |
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1306562554 |
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