John Laband

John Laband (born 18 march 1947) in Johannesburg is a south african historian and writer, specialising in Anglo-Zulu and Boers wars who lectured in history for 42 years at various universities in South Africa, England and Canada.[1][2][3]

Biography

During his life he published many books about the military history of southern Africa and the history of the Zulu nation and the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 in particular. John Paul Clow Laband is Professor Emeritus and Chair of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England.[4]

Bibliography (not exhaustive)
  • 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[5]
  • Isandlwana, KwaZulu Monuments Council series, 1992
  • Lord Chelmsford's Zululand Campaign 1878-1879, Army Records Society, 1994
  • Rope of Sand: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century, 1995, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, ISBN 9781868420230
  • The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War, 2000, with Paul Thompson, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, ISBN 9781869140557
  • The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars, 1883-1888, 2001, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, ISBN 9780869809983
  • The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War 1880-1881, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN 9781138154209
  • The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881, Helion & Company, ISBN 9781911512387
  • Daily Lives Of Civilians In Wartime Africa, 2007, ISBN 9780313335402
  • Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 9780810860780
  • Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300209198
  • The assassination of King Shaka, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, ISBN 9781868428076
  • Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present, with Benedict Carton and Jabulani Sithole, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN 9781850659082
  • The eight Zulu kings: From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, ISBN 9781868428380
  • The Fall of Rorke's Drift: An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Greenhill Books, ISBN 9781784383732
  • Bringers of War, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, ISBN 9781848326583
  • The A to Z of the Zulu Wars, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 9780810876316
  • with Timothy J. Stapleton, Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts, 2 volumes, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, 2016

Further reading
  • John Gooch, The Boer War: Direction, Experience, and Image, University of Leeds, p.107-126, 2000
  • 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, Soldiers and Settlers in Africa: 1850 - 1918, 2009
  • Keith Smith, Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War, Frontline Books, 2014
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References
  1. University of Calgary
  2. GGEF
  3. Library of Congress
  5. Book review
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