Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography

by Harold E. Raugh Jr. (Editor)

Overview

The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the most humiliating defeat in British military history-the Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879-and one of its most heroic feats of martial arms-the defense of Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879. While lasting only six months, it is one of the most examined, studied, and debated conflicts in Victorian military history.

Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions to this popular field of historical study. From the student or neophyte to the study of the Anglo-Zulu War, its battles, and its opponents to the more experienced historian or scholar, this selected bibliography is a must for anyone interested in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810874671
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	684
File size:	802 KB

About the Author

Harold E. Raugh Jr. serves as the Command Historian, U.S. Army V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany. He is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, the author or editor of five previous military history books and over 700 articles and book reviews, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Editorial Reviews

Raugh’s exhaustive bibliography of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is an astonishingly thorough guide to this conflict, for it not only chronicles the aforementioned famous battles but places them into the broadest possible historical context. In this regard, Raugh’s book is an invaluable tool for studying and researching the Anglo-Zulu War. His chapters are both chronological and topical, and identify a rich variety of source materials and hard-to-find publications. For example, Raugh’s guide begins with a general bibliographic overview of the political and economic background to the war. It then proceeds with an outstanding bibliography on the rise of Shaka and the Zulu kingdom. On the war itself, Raugh divides his chapters into the two phases of the conflict and goes on to provide extensive citations on the following: the war’s impact on popular culture; autobiographies, biographies, journals, and letters of the major participants; regimental and unit histories; soldiers’ letters published in newspapers; selected illustrations from contemporary periodicals; and a large variety of archival sources, including British and Natalian Parliamentary Papers and personal and unofficial documents from the United kingdom and South Africa. Raugh even includes miscellaneous lists on poetry, films and television, music and dances, and websites. Many of the citations are annotated and all entries are numbered for easy referencing. Overall, this comprehensive bibliography should stand the test of time as the best publication of its kind on the Anglo-Zulu War.

Journal of Military History

If not yet the U.S. Army’s answer to Jeremy Black, he [Harold Raugh] is certainly prolific, with over 740 articles and book reviews to his name....Intended as a research guide and aimed at the academic library market, Harold Raugh’s Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 is an impressive compilation and an invaluable tool for further research.

Soldiers of the Queen

This is the first bibliography of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After an overview of the war, the bibliographic material is divided into the following sections: overview; rise of the Zulu Nation 1819-1878; Anglo-Zulu War, Phase 1 with, among others, subsections for specific battles; Anglo-Zulu War, Phase 2 with, among others, subsections for the death of the Price Imperial and the capture of Cetshwayo kaMpande; colonial troops; miscellaneous aspects such as naval brigade, medical support, literature, and more; autobiographies, biographies, journals, and letters; regimental and unit histories; soldiers’ letters published in newspapers; selected notices and illustrations from contemporary periodicals; British and Natalian Parliamentary papers; government and official documents; personal and unofficial documents, United Kingdom; personal and unofficial documents, South Africa; and personal and unofficial documents, other repositories. There is an author/editor index included. The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 was a short colonial campaign that was much debated in Victorian military history. This book is intended as a research guide and tool to identify obscure publications and source materials.

American Reference Books Annual

The compiler of this book.... was well equipped for the arduous task of locating every single scrap of recorded information about the campaign of 1879 – every book or article, every contemporary newspaper article, film, television programme, unpublished thesis or archive collection of contemporary letters and papers that he could find.... I think that we can reasonably assume that Dr. Raugh has trawled up all the original source material that exists.

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