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), author.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Summary:

In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalryat 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. Although the similarities between the two frontier encounters have long been noted, James O. Gump's book The Dust Rose Like Smoke 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, Gump's comparative study persuasively traces the origins and aftermath of both episodes. He examines the complicated ways in which Lakota and Zulu leadership sought to protect indigenous interests while Western leadership calculated their subjugation to imperial authority. The second edition includes a new preface from the author, revised and expanded chapters, and an interview with Leonard Little Finger (great-great-grandson of Ghost Dance leader Big Foot), whose story connects Wounded Knee and Nelson Mandela.

Contents:

The Little Bighorn in comparative perspective

Frontiers of expansion

Indigenous empires

Collaborators of a kind

Agents of empire

Patterns of imperial overrule

Images of empire

Legacies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803284531

0803284535

9780803284555

0803284551

OCLC:

929857760