John Laband

{{Short description|South African historian (born 1947)}}

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John Paul Clow Laband (born 18 March 1947 in Johannesburg) is a South African historian and writer, specialising in Anglo-Zulu and the First and Second Freedom Wars (Afrikaans: Eerste- en Tweede Vryheidsoorlog). He has taught at universities in South Africa, England, and Canada.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/issues/vol4/4/abstract |title=Archived copy |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=18 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418223051/https://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/issues/vol4/4/abstract |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ggedufund.com/deirdreerasmus |title=GGEF |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704135104/http://www.ggedufund.com/deirdreerasmus |url-status=dead }}[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79113755.html Library of Congress] In particular, he has been Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and a Research Associate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Biography

Laband has 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. He is now Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University];{{cite book |last1=Laband |first1=John |title=The Assassination of King Shaka: Zulu History's Dramatic Moment |date=2017 |publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers |isbn=978-1-86842-808-3 |page=270 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8fnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT270 |language=en}} and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England.{{cite web | url=https://www.casematepublishers.com/the-fall-of-rorke-039-s-drift.html#.XwBwQCgzY2w | title=The Fall of Rorke's Drift | access-date=4 July 2020 | archive-date=7 July 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707050903/https://www.casematepublishers.com/the-fall-of-rorke-039-s-drift.html#.XwBwQCgzY2w | url-status=dead }}

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[http://natalia.org.za/Files/22/Natalia%20v22%20book%20reviews%20-%20notices%20C.pdf Book review]
  • 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

References