Terrific Majesty : : The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention / / Carolyn Hamilton.
Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu—founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa—has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Orthographic and Terminological Notes
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1. Painted chests, academic body servants, and visions of modern airlines: Shaka in contemporary discourses
- 2. The origins of the image of Shaka
- 3. The men who would be Shaka: Shaka as a model for the Natal native administration
- 4. “The establishment of a living source of tradition”: James Stuart and the genius of Shakan despotism
- 5. Shaka as metaphor, memory, and history in apartheid South Africa
- 6. “The Government resembles Tshaka”
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index