Acknowledgments  ix

Maps  xii

Introduction  1

1. The Failure of Zulu Ethnic Integration in the Precolonial Zulu Kingdom  21

2. A Zulu King Too Strong to Love, a Colonial State Too Weak to Hate, 1838–1879  47

3. Increasing Conflict among Natal Africans, 1879–1906  83

4. The Role of Migrant Labor in the Spread of Zulu Ethnicity, 1886–1906  117

5. Natal Africans' Turn to Dinuzulu, 1898–1905  150

6. The Poll Tax Protests and Rebellion, 1905–1906  182

Epilogue  217

Notes  225

Bibliography  261

Index  277

“Mahoney plunges straight to the heart of the pulsing academic debate over the problematic origins of Zulu ethnicity. His important study will certainly assume its well-merited place in the literature. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”—J. P. Laband, Choice

“Mahoney plunges straight to the heart of the pulsing academic debate over the problematic origins of Zulu ethnicity. His important study will certainly assume its well-merited place in the literature. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”—J. P. Laband, Choice

"Michael R. Mahoney's synthetic history of how Natal Africans became Zulu is bold and provocative. It is bound to spur debate and discussion of an issue that is at once historically important and vitally relevant in the present."—Paul La Hausse, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge

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