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The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition

The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition

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African HistoryNative American History19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0803278632
ISBN13: 9780803278639
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jan 1 2016
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry at 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.

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