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  • 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

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  • “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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    In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years later, in 1906, many of those same Natal Africans, and their descendants, rebelled against the British in the name of the Zulu king. In The Other Zulus, a thorough history of Zulu ethnicity during the colonial period, Michael R. Mahoney shows that the lower classes of Natal, rather than its elites, initiated the transformation in ethnic self-identification, and they did so for multiple reasons. The resentment that Natal Africans felt toward the Zulu king diminished as his power was curtailed by the British. The most negative consequences of colonialism may have taken several decades to affect the daily lives of most Africans. Natal Africans are likely to have experienced the oppression of British rule more immediately and intensely in 1906 than they had in 1879. Meanwhile, labor migration to the gold mines of Johannesburg politicized the young men of Natal. Mahoney's fine-grained local history shows that these young migrants constructed and claimed a new Zulu identity, both to challenge the patriarchal authority of African chiefs and to fight colonial rule.

    About The Author(s)

    Michael R. Mahoney is Adjunct Professor of History at Ripon College and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Lawrence University.
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