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

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In 1876 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force used to be wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the entire defeat of regular army troops by forces considered undisciplined barbarian tribesmen stunned an imperial nation.

The similarities between the 2 frontier encounters have long been noted, but James O. Gump is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context. “This study issues a challenge to American exceptionalism,” he writes. Viewing both episodes as a part of a global pattern of intensified conflict within the latter 1800s on account of Western domination over a vast element of the globe, he persuasively traces the comparisons of their origins and aftermath.


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