Kingdom in crisis : the Zulu response to the British invasion of 1879

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Kingdom in crisis : the Zulu response to the British invasion of 1879

John Laband

（War, armed forces and society）

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-266) and index

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For historians to ask new questions has the important effect of alerting them to unfamiliar aspects of familiar problems, and to unsuspected data in well-worked sources. So it is with the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, where the field has apparently been thoroughly traversed. Yet, until recently, the war has been treated from the standpoint of the invading British, and in the manner traditional to Victorian colonial campaigns. The Zulu dimension to the struggle, which should embrace not only an appreciation of Zulu military capability and planning, but also an understanding of the structure of Zulu society and the functioning of the Zulu state, has consequently suffered neglect. Clearly, though, any attempt to comprehend the efforts of the Zulu kingdom to meet the challenge of invasion by a well-equipped, professional British army must take into account the interrelationship of all these elements.

目次

  • The stakes of war
  • grounds for aggression
  • the Zulu policy and the ultimatum crisis
  • opposing armies
  • the battle of Isandlwana
  • the battle of Rorke's Drift
  • defeat on the coast and disarray in the west
  • the lull
  • the turning-point
  • the battle of Gingindlovu
  • warding off the falling tree
  • the battle in the plain
  • a king who flees to the mountains is finished.

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