Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Impe - Dominy, Graham
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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 influence on and reference point for settler society. Graham Dominy's Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier reveals the unexamined but pivotal role of Fort Napier in the peacetime public dramas of the colony. Its triumphalist colonial-themed pageantry belied colonists's worries about their own vulnerability. As Dominy shows the cultural political and economic methods used by the garrison compensated for this perceived weakness. Settler elites married their daughters to soldiers to create and preserve an English-speaking oligarchy. At the same time garrison troops formed the backbone of a consumer market that allowed colonists to form banking and property interests that consolidated their control.
TITLE: Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison
AUTHOR: Dominy, Graham
SKU: 9780252040047
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2016
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 279
BINDING: Hardcover
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 237x160
WEIGHT: 0.66