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Book SynopsisIn 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. 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.
Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition of
The Dust Rose Like Smoke “It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this brief but pioneering book.”—
Ethnohistory “[Gump’s] opening chapters show a mastery of all the relevant historical literature. Indeed, they could be set for any undergraduate course in imperial history as textbook examples of how to build up a comparative framework of analysis.”—
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History “An excellent scholarly introduction to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of the Sioux and the Zulus as well as a thoughtful analysis of United States and British expansion.”—
Journal of American History “The first detailed, in-depth comparison of the closing of the American and South African frontiers. . . . Gump has performed a valuable service by showing that the events surrounding Little Big Horn and Isandhlwana were comparable incidents in a global narrative.”—
Journal of Social History “Informative to both specialist and general readers.”—
American Historical Review "An intriguing book which opens the doors for all manner of comparative studies, and thereby suggests that the process of interaction between indigenous peoples and imperial interlopers is much the same across the world. . . . an interesting and thought-provoking book."—
Soldiers of the Queen"Gump's comparative framework examining historical parallels and contrasts makes this an important and useful book illuminating the clashing of Indigenous and settler colonial empires in America and southern Africa."—Jay H. Buckley,
Native American and Indigenous Studies"Engrossing."—
ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Little Bighorn in Comparative Perspective
2. Frontiers of Expansion
3. Indigenous Empires
4. Collaborators of a Kind
5. Agents of Empire
6. Patterns of Imperial Overrule
7. Images of Empire
8. Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
