Timothy J Stapleton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 299463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy J Stapleton |
| PRENOMES | Timothy J |
| SOBRENOME | Stapleton |
| ASSINATURA | STAPLETON T J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6759-5457 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Modern African Conflicts
An essential resource for students or general readers interested in post-colonial Africa, this encyclopedia provides coverage of different regions, countries, wars, battles, factions, leaders, and foreign powers. Armed conflict represents a substantial part of African history since around 1960, yet this history is either insufficiently taught or overshadowed by negative stereotypes about African “tribal warfare.” In an effort to introduce this vi…
The Gold Coast Brigade’s Crossing of the Juba River, Italian Somaliland, February 1941
In February 1941, West African troops conducted an opposed crossing of the Juba River in Italian Somaliland that, together with a South African crossing to the south, became a decisive action of the East Africa campaign of the Second World War. After the Juba was breached, Italian resistance in Somaliland crumbled with British imperial forces originating in Kenya taking Mogadishu in a few days and advancing into Ethiopia. Based on archival docume…
African Navies
Modern African Conflicts
The Importance of Operational Accounts in African Military History
This issue of the Journal of African Military History presents two articles on South Africa that demonstrate the continued importance of original research on operational history. In addition, they both highlight the important Clausewitzian point about the unpredictability of war including wars that, with hindsight, appear to have been one-sided. Michał Leśniewski looks at the Battle of Thukela, a hitherto little-known engagement between the force…
The Creation and Early Development of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) 1980-93
Given the 2017 coup in Zimbabwe, a rare event in Southern Africa but sadly common in the rest of the continent, this paper discusses the beginnings of the politicization of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) during the 1980s. At the end of the country’s war for independence in 1980, the ZDF formed as an amalgamation of former Rhodesian state military personnel and insurgents from the liberation movements of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAP…
West African Soldiers in Britain’s Colonial Army, 1860-1960
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960
Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region
Visual Symbols and Military Culture in Britain’s West African Colonial Army (c.1900–60)
Visual symbols like uniforms, emblems and ceremonies became central in inventing British military culture among West African forces reflecting orientalist and ornamentalist interpretations of empire. While uniforms fostered military identity, the versions devised for West African soldiers reproduced racial stereotypes and military fashion trends. Granting insignia and Colours to West African units transformed them from simplistic paramilitaries t…
Martial Identities in Colonial Nigeria (c. 1900–1960)
In British colonial Nigeria, the military was more heterogeneous than previously thought and British ideas about “martial races” changed depending on local reactions to recruiting. In the early twentieth century British officers saw the northern Hausa and southwestern Yoruba, who dominated the ranks, as civilized “martial races.” The Yoruba stopped enlisting given new prospects and protest, and southeasterners like the Igbo rejected recruiting gi…
Africa
This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twentieth century while providing insightful introductions to such conflicts as: African rebellions against colonial regimes in the early twentieth centu…
A History of Genocide in Africa
Based on a series of detailed case studies, this book presents the history of genocide in Africa within the specific context of African history, examining conflicts in countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racis…
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia
A Military History of Africa
A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day. A Military History of Africaachieves a daunting task: it synthesizes decades of specialized academic research and literature—including the most recent material—to offer an accessible survey of Africa's military history, from the earliest times to the present day. The first volume examines the preco…
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80
A Military History of South Africa
This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historic…
Strength beyond Structure
Does the person make the times or do the times make the person? That is an old question, and a very simplistic one, which many history students have grappled with over the years. This edited collection deals with much more sophisticated aspects of this question in relation to the study of Africa. It looks at how people deal with the apparent limitations of their circumstances, which can include economic, political, social, cultural, and environme…
Faku
From roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Because of Faku’s legacy, the Mpondo Kingdom became the last African state in Southern Africa to fall under colonial rule. When his father died, Faku inherited his power. In a period of intense raiding, migration and state formation, he transformed the Mpondo polity from a loosely organized constellation…
No Insignificant Part
Introduction Setting the Stage: Colonialism and Zimbabwe: The First World War and Africa Africans in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the First World War Soldiers in the Rhodesian Native Regiment: Their Profile and Daily Life The Road to Songea The Sieges of Malangali and Songea The Siege of Kitanda Disaster at St. Moritz Mpepo: The Place of Winds Portuguese East Africa Demobilisation and life After the War Index
No Insignificant Part
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were originally miners or farm workers from what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. Like others across the world, they joined the army for a va…
Faku
Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape, 1834–53
In the history of colonial conquest in Africa it was common for invading European forces to enlist the assistance of one African state against another. This was certainly the case when the British Cape Colony waged three wars of conquest against neighbouring Xhosa chiefdoms during the mid-nineteenth century. However, it is curious that the Mpondo Kingdom, despite its alliance with the British and many calls to arms from Cape officials, avoided di…
Faku
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony 1750-1870
Him Who Destroys All’
Maqoma
A History of Genocide in Africa
Based on a series of detailed case studies, this book presents the history of genocide in Africa within the specific context of African history, examining conflicts in countries such as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Rwanda, and Sudan. Why has Africa been the subject of so many accusations related to genocide? Indeed, the number of such allegations related to Africa has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Popular racis…
Oral Evidence in a Pseudo-Ethnicity
There is a disturbing trend emerging in South African history. Unquestioning acceptance of African oral tradition threatens to become a requirement of politically correct scholarship. The African voice knows all. Julian Cobbing has been sharply criticized for ignoring oral evidence in his revision of early nineteenth-century South African history. Cobbing claims that African migration and state formation in the 1820s was caused by the illegal act…
We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told
Martial Identities in Colonial Nigeria (c. 1900–1960)
In British colonial Nigeria, the military was more heterogeneous than previously thought and British ideas about “martial races” changed depending on local reactions to recruiting. In the early twentieth century British officers saw the northern Hausa and southwestern Yoruba, who dominated the ranks, as civilized “martial races.” The Yoruba stopped enlisting given new prospects and protest, and southeasterners like the Igbo rejected recruiting gi…
A Military History of Africa
A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day. A Military History of Africaachieves a daunting task: it synthesizes decades of specialized academic research and literature—including the most recent material—to offer an accessible survey of Africa's military history, from the earliest times to the present day. The first volume examines the preco…
No Insignificant Part
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were originally miners or farm workers from what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. Like others across the world, they joined the army for a va…
They No Longer Care for Their Chiefs
Timothy J. Stapleton, "They No Longer Care for Their Chiefs": Another Look at the Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-1857, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 383-392
African Navies
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960
Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia
Faku
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony 1750-1870
The Expansion of a Pseudo-Ethnicity in the Eastern Cape
Timothy J. Stapleton, The Expansion of a Pseudo-Ethnicity in the Eastern Cape: Reconsidering the Fingo "Exodus" of 1865, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1996), pp. 233-250
The Memory of Maqoma
Dominated by a settler heritage, South African history has forgotten or degraded many Africans who had a significant impact on the region. The more recent liberal and radical schools also suffer from this tragic inheritance. Maqoma, a nineteenth century Xhosa chief who fought the expansionist Cape Colony in three frontier wars, has been a victim of similar distortion. He has been characterized as a drunken troublemaker and cattle thief who master…
The ?logic? of Husserl's transcendental reduction
They No Longer Care for Their Chiefs
Timothy J. Stapleton, "They No Longer Care for Their Chiefs": Another Look at the Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856-1857, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1991), pp. 383-392
Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
The Memory of Maqoma
Dominated by a settler heritage, South African history has forgotten or degraded many Africans who had a significant impact on the region. The more recent liberal and radical schools also suffer from this tragic inheritance. Maqoma, a nineteenth century Xhosa chief who fought the expansionist Cape Colony in three frontier wars, has been a victim of similar distortion. He has been characterized as a drunken troublemaker and cattle thief who master…
Reluctant Slaughter
Le pouvoir precolonial chez les Xhosa, peuple d'Afrique Australe, etait fonde sur le patronage pastoral. La destruction de ce systeme, par la conquete europeenne et l'apparition de l'emphyseme pulmonaire chez le betail, a affaibli l'aristocratie. A l'interieur de la chefferie ou les dirigeants avaient collabore avec les colonisateurs, les roturiers ont commence a tuer le troupeau royal pour detroner leurs chefs. L'aristocratie a interdit la cultu…
The Question of Hermeneutics
Kingdom in Crisis
The stakes of war grounds for aggression the Zulu policy and the ultimatum crisis opposing armies the battle of Isandlwana the battle of Rorke's Drift defeat on the coast and disarray in the west the lull the turning-point the battle of Gingindlovu warding off the falling tree the battle in the plain a king who flees to the mountains is finished
White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa
The World and the Word
Musho! Zulu Popular Praises
In Musho! Zulu Popular Praises Elizabeth Gunner, an authority on Zulu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Mafika Gwala, a South African teacher and poet, have translated, transcribed, and annotated a wide variety of Zulu izibongo poetry. In so doing, they have revealed the incredible breadth of this traditional genre, which is usually equated with nineteenth-century epic traditions that celebr…
Oral Evidence in a Pseudo-Ethnicity
There is a disturbing trend emerging in South African history. Unquestioning acceptance of African oral tradition threatens to become a requirement of politically correct scholarship. The African voice knows all. Julian Cobbing has been sharply criticized for ignoring oral evidence in his revision of early nineteenth-century South African history. Cobbing claims that African migration and state formation in the 1820s was caused by the illegal act…
Maqoma
We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told
The Expansion of a Pseudo-Ethnicity in the Eastern Cape
Timothy J. Stapleton, The Expansion of a Pseudo-Ethnicity in the Eastern Cape: Reconsidering the Fingo "Exodus" of 1865, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1996), pp. 233-250
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order
Him Who Destroys All’
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony 1750-1870
Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape, 1834–53
In the history of colonial conquest in Africa it was common for invading European forces to enlist the assistance of one African state against another. This was certainly the case when the British Cape Colony waged three wars of conquest against neighbouring Xhosa chiefdoms during the mid-nineteenth century. However, it is curious that the Mpondo Kingdom, despite its alliance with the British and many calls to arms from Cape officials, avoided di…
Faku
Faku
Faku
From roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Because of Faku’s legacy, the Mpondo Kingdom became the last African state in Southern Africa to fall under colonial rule. When his father died, Faku inherited his power. In a period of intense raiding, migration and state formation, he transformed the Mpondo polity from a loosely organized constellation…
No Insignificant Part
Introduction Setting the Stage: Colonialism and Zimbabwe: The First World War and Africa Africans in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the First World War Soldiers in the Rhodesian Native Regiment: Their Profile and Daily Life The Road to Songea The Sieges of Malangali and Songea The Siege of Kitanda Disaster at St. Moritz Mpepo: The Place of Winds Portuguese East Africa Demobilisation and life After the War Index
No Insignificant Part
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were originally miners or farm workers from what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. Like others across the world, they joined the army for a va…
Strength beyond Structure
Does the person make the times or do the times make the person? That is an old question, and a very simplistic one, which many history students have grappled with over the years. This edited collection deals with much more sophisticated aspects of this question in relation to the study of Africa. It looks at how people deal with the apparent limitations of their circumstances, which can include economic, political, social, cultural, and environme…
A Military History of South Africa
This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historic…
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