The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux

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U of Nebraska Press, 1 janv. 1996 - 178 pages
"Engrossing."-Choice. "An intriguing book which opens the doors for all manner of comparative studies, and thereby suggests that the process of interaction between indigenous peoples and imperial interlopers is much the same across the world. . . . an interesting and thought-provoking book."-Soldiers of the Queen. In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry on the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined barbarian tribesmen stunned an imperial nation. The similarities between the two frontier encounters have long been noted, but James O. Gump is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context. "This study issues a challenge to American exceptionalism, " he writes. Viewing both episodes as part of a global pattern of intensified conflict in the latter 1800s resulting from Western domination over a vast portion of the globe, he persuasively traces the comparisons in their origins and aftermath. James O. Gump, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of San Diego, is the author of The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, 1750-1840.
 

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Frontiers of Expansion
27
Indigenous Empires
41
Collaborators of a Kind
55
Agents of Empire
73
Cetshwayo in The Illustrated London News
92
Patterns of Imperial Overrule
95
Lord Chelmsford in The Illustrated London News
100
Images of Empire
117
Bismarck Tribune Extra 6 July 1876
120
Custers Last Fight by Otto Becker
127
20
133
Conclusion
135
Bibliography 15353
161
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James O. Gump, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of San Diego, is the author of The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, 1750?1840.

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