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

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

Title:

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

Author:

Hamilton, Carolyn.

ISBN:

9780864864215

Personal Author:

Hamilton, Carolyn.

Publication Information:

Cape Town : David Philip, 1998.

Physical Description:

xii, 278 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Personal Subject:

Shaka, King of the Zulu, 1787?-1828.

Corporate Subject:

Inkatha Freedom Party.

Subject Term:

Zulu (African people) -- History.

Zulu (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.

Nationalism -- South Africa.

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Summary

Carolyn Hamilton traces the construction of the heroic, demonized and realistic Shaka from the earliest colonial texts to the Africanist idealization, and the modern uses of the story by the Inkatha and apartheid regime.

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