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Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers : Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison /
"Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influenc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chigaco :
University of Illinois Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Fort Napier : A Garrison among Garrisons
- From Whence They Came : An Overview of Queen Victoria's Army
- Establishing an Imperial Presence : Bayside Battles, Diplomacy, Women's Revolts, and the Reluctant March on Maritzburg
- Building a Fort : Plans, Impermanence, and Imperial Policies
- Pageantry, Pioneers, Panics, and Punitive Expeditions : The Pivotal Role of the Garrison in Creating a Colonial State, 1843-63
- Ceremonies and Crises: The Garrison in the Established Colony, 1860s-1890s
- Soldiers in Garrison : Discipline, Indiscipline, and Mutiny
- The Inniskilling Fusiliers : Bandits, Brawlers, or Mutineers?
- The Garrison and the Wider Society : Placing the "Rough and the Respectable" in the Colonial Context
- "For the Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady Are Sisters under Their Skins" : Class and Gender Relationships in the Garrison
- Spending the Queen's Shilling : The Economic Influence of the Natal Garrison
- The Garrison and the State : Changing Relationships of Power
- Recessional : The Last of the Garrison, the Fate of the Fort, and Its Place in Folk Memories
- Appendix: List of Regiments in Garrison in Natal/Pietermaritzburg, 1842-1914
- Note on sources.