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Book Review
Sub-Saharan Africa
Jeff Guy. The View across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism. (Reconsiderations in Southern African History.) 2d ed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2002. pp. xi, 498. $24.50.
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Jeff Guy's richly documented narrative on the life of Harriette Colenso, one of South Africa's most courageous defenders of African rights in the late nineteenth century, also features the destruction and dismemberment of the Zulu kingdom between 1879 and 1897. This book, Guy's third on Britain's imperial subjugation of the Zulu kingdom, was preceded by The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom: Civil War in Zululand, 18791884 (1979) and The Heretic: A Study of the Life of John William Colenso, 18141883 (1983). His latest volume establishes Guy as the preeminent scholar on the disintegration of the Zulu kingdom during this particular phase of British imperial expansion in South Africa. |
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