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Terrific majesty: the power of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention
Hamilton, Carolyn.
Year: 1998.
Publisher:  Harvard University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Orthographic and terminological notes
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
1. Painted chests, academic body servants, and visions of modern airlines: Shaka in contemporary discourses
2. The origins of the image of Shaka
3. The men who would be Shaka: Shaka as a model for the Natal native administration
4. "The establishment of a living source of tradition": James Stuart and the genius of Shakan despotism
5. Shaka as metaphor, memory, and history in apartheid South Africa
6. "The Government resembles Tshaka"
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Title: Terrific majesty : the power of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention Carolyn Hamilton.
Author: Hamilton, Carolyn
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Source Version: Terrific majesty : the power of Shaka Zulu and the limits of historical invention Carolyn Hamilton. 
Hamilton, Carolyn
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02599
Subject Headings: • Shaka, -- Zulu Chief, -- 1787?-1828
• Inkatha Freedom Party
• Zulu (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
• Nationalism -- South Africa
• Zulu (African people) -- History
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