![]() ![]() Now, two decades later, in a revised and expanded second edition, Gump compares and contrasts the rise and fall of the Zulu and Lakota Sioux nations from Indigenous perspectives, chronicling the events that culminated in their subjection to British and American imperialism toward the latter end of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() Gump's comparative monograph, The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, was first published in 1994. Comparative history, they argued, yields rich dividends in viewing the process of cultural interactions in different regions, modifying impressions that can be misleading and calling attention to considerations previously overlooked. They challenged historians to employ comparative historical analysis of the American and South African frontiers to discover commonalities on how Indigenous cultures responded to the onslaught of capitalistic settler colonial expansion of imperial Britain and America. SOME THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, historians Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson published an edited collection of essays entitled The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared(Yale University Press, 1981). ![]()
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