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Terrific majesty: the power of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention

Carolyn Hamilton
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page ix)
  • Orthographic and terminological notes (page xi)
  • Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Maps (page xiv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. Painted chests, academic body servants, and visions of modern airlines: Shaka in contemporary discourses (page 8)
  • 2. The origins of the image of Shaka (page 36)
  • 3. The men who would be Shaka: Shaka as a model for the Natal native administration (page 72)
  • 4. "The establishment of a living source of tradition": James Stuart and the genius of Shakan despotism (page 130)
  • 5. Shaka as metaphor, memory, and history in apartheid South Africa (page 168)
  • 6. "The Government resembles Tshaka" (page 206)
  • Glossary (page 217)
  • Notes (page 219)
  • Bibliography (page 257)
  • Index (page 275)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HTE 33.2 (Feb. 2002): 271-272 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2745%28200002%2933%3A2%3C271%3ATMTPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
IJAHS 31.3 (1998): 702-703 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281998%2931%3A3%3C702%3ATMTPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
ENHR 114.458 (Sep. 1999): 1005 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199909%29114%3A458%3C1005%3ATMTPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
JSAS 25.2 (Jun. 1999): 313-315 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7070%28199906%2925%3A2%3C313%3ATMTPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
AHR 104-5 (Dec. 1999): 1804-1806 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199912%29104%3A5%3C1804%3ATMTPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
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Published: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674038202 (ebook)
  • 9780674874459 (hardcover)
  • 9780674874466 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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