The dust rose like smoke : the subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux / James O. Gump.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gump, James O. (James Oliver)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Dakota Indians.

Dakota Indians--Wars--Cross-cultural studies.

Dakota Indians--Government relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Zulu (African people)--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Zulu (African people).

Zulu (African people)--Wars--Cross-cultural studies.

Zulu (African people)--Government relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Cross-cultural studies.

Zulu (African people)--Wars.

History.

Dakota Indians--Government relations.

Dakota Indians--Wars.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1994]

Summary:

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 dominion over a vast portion of the globe, he persuasively traces the comparisons in their origins and aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803221525

OCLC:

28022257