John Laband

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John Paul Clow Laband (born March 18, 1947 in Johannesburg ) is a South African historian and writer, with research interests in the Zulu War and the Boer Wars .

biography

John Laband taught and researched for 42 years at universities in South Africa, England and Canada . In the course of his scientific work he published several works on the military history of southern Africa and the history of the Zulu . He devoted himself especially to the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

John Laband is Professor Emeritus and Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University , Canada, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall ( Cambridge University ). He is also a Laband Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a research fellow at the University of Stellenbosch .

John Laband lives in Greyton, retired .

Works

  • Fight Us In The Open; The Anglo-Zulu War Through Zulu Eyes , Pietermaritzburg, 1985
  • Kingdom in Crisis: The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879 . 1992
  • with Jeff Mathews: Isandlwana . KwaZulu Monuments Council series, 1992
  • as editor: Lord Chelmsford's Zululand Campaign 1878–1879 . Army Records Society, Stroud 1994
  • Rope of Sand: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century . 1995, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg 1995, ISBN 978-1-868-42023-0
  • with Paul Thompson: The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War . University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scottsville 2004, ISBN 978-1-869-14055-7
  • The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars, 1883-1888 . University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 2001, ISBN 978-0-869-80998-3
  • The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War 1880–1881 . Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-15420-9
  • The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880–1881 . Helion & Company, Solihull (West Midlands) 2017, ISBN 978-1-911-51238-7
  • Daily lives of civilians in wartime Africa: from slavery days to Rwandan genocide . Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33540-2
  • Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars , Scarecrow Press, Lanham (MD) 2009, ISBN 978-0-810-86078-0
  • Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier . Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-20919-8
  • The Assassination of King Shaka: Zulu History's Dramatic Moment . Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 2017, ISBN 978-1-868-42807-6
  • with Benedict Carton & Jabulani Sithole: Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present . C Hurst & Co Publishers, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-850-65908-2
  • The eight Zulu kings: from Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini . Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Johannesburg 2018, ISBN 978-1-868-42838-0
  • The Fall of Rorke's Drift: An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 . Greenhill Books, Barnsley (South Yorkshire) 2019, ISBN 978-1-784-38373-2
  • Bringers of war: the Portuguese in Africa during the age of gunpowder and sail from fifteenth to eighteenth century . Frontline Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-848-32658-3
  • The A to Z of the Zulu Wars . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 978-0-810-87631-6

Source and further reading

  • John Gooch: The Boer War: Direction, Experience, and Image . University of Leeds, 2000, pp. 107-126,
  • Adrian Greaves: The Tribe That Washed Its Spears: The Zulus at War . Pen & Sword Military, 2013
  • Harold E. Raugh, Jr .: Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography . Scarecrow Press, 2011
  • Stephen M. Miller (Ed.): Soldiers and Settlers in Africa: 1850-1918 . Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2009
  • Keith Smith: Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War . Frontline Books, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Library of Congress: Laband, John, 1947- . at www.id.loc.gov (English).
  2. ^ A b Greyton Genadendal Education Fund: John Laband . at www.ggedufund.com (English).
  3. ^ Wilfrid Laurier University: Faculty and Staff. Professor Emeriti . at www.wlu.ca (English).
  4. ↑ Anonymous: The Fall of Rorke's Drift . Book review with biographical information, on www.casematepublishers.com (English).
  5. ↑ John Laband: Toppling Statues, Burning Books and the Humanities in South African Universities . In: The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation, Issue 76 (Sept. 2015), pp. 15-21, online at hsf.org.za (English).
  6. ^ Graham Dominy: Book Reviews and Notices . In: Natalia 22 (1992), pp. 86-87. at www.natalia.org.za (English), book review.
  7. ↑ Jisc: bibliographic evidence .
  8. ↑ Jisc: bibliographic evidence .
personal data
SURNAME Laband, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laband, John Paul Clow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg