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

Carolyn Hamilton (Author)
Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a theme park, even the subject of a TV film. This book explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image.
eBook, English, 1998
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998
Biography
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations
9780674874459, 9780674874466, 9780674038202, 0674874455, 0674874463, 0674038207
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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."
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
English