Kingdom in Crisis
Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879
J.P.C. Laband(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 5. March 1992
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7190-3582-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
maps, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3582-1 (9780719035821)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.