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The washing of the spears : a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879

Title: The washing of the spears : a history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879 / Donald R. Morris.
Author: Morris, Donald R.
Publication: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1965]

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Description

655 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empir--from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka (1787-1828), through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 623-630.

Contents

pt. 1. Prologue -- The Bantu -- The rise of the Zulu nation -- Port Natal -- Dingane -- Mpande -- pt. 2. Confederation -- The coming of the war -- Preparations -- Invasion -- Isandhlwana -- The defense of Rorke's Drift -- The flanking columns -- Aftermath -- The left flank column -- The second invasion -- The prince imperial -- Ulundi -- The captains and the kings depart -- Epilogue: The rain of Zululand.

ISBN

0224610589
9780224610582

LCCN

65012594

OCLC

ocm00408488
408488
SCSB-8930708

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library