Zulu Warriors The Battle for the South African Frontier John Laband

Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 62 Location : UK

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A misleading title, I looked at it in Foyles the other week, be warned it isn't all about the amaZulu.

John Y.

Overview

"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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Posts : 1086 Join date : 2012-05-12 Location : NYC

John Young wrote:: A misleading title, I looked at it in Foyles the other week, be warned it isn't all about the amaZulu.

Do you mean it might have been more accurate to call it Southern Africa or the Southern African Frontier?

6pdr.,

A more accurate title might have been British Military Campaigns in Southern African 1811-1880, but it doesn't have the pull of the word Zulu.

John Y.

An alternative title might have been Southern African Tribal Resistance against British Imperial Expansion - 1811-1880.

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