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Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers
Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Technical Notes
- 1. Fort Napier: A Garrison among Garrisons
- 2. From Whence They Came: An Overview of Queen Victoriaâs Army
- 3. Establishing an Imperial Presence: Bayside Battles, Diplomacy, Womenâs Revolts, and the Reluctant March on Maritzburg
- 4. Building a Fort: Plans, Impermanence, and Imperial Policies
- 5. Pageantry, Pioneers, Panics and Punitive Expeditions: The Pivotal Role of the Garrison in Creating a Colonial State, 1840sâ1860s
- 6. Ceremonies and Crises: The Garrison in the Established Colony, 1860sâ1890s
- 7. Soldiers in Garrison: Discipline, Indiscipline, and Mutiny
- 8. The Inniskilling Fusiliers: Bandits, Brawlers, or Mutineers?
- 9. The Garrison and the Wider Society: Placing the âRough and the Respectableâ in the Colonial Context
- 10. âFor the Colonelâs Lady and Judy OâGrady Are Sisters under Their Skinsâ: Class and Gender Relationships in the Garrison
- 11. Spending the Queenâs Shilling: The Economic Influence of the Natal Garrison
- 12. The Garrison and the State: Changing Relationships of Power
- 13. Recessional: The Last of the Garrison, the Fate of the Fort, and Its Place in Folk Memories
- Appendix. List of Regiments in Garrison in Natal/Pietermaritzburg, 1842â1914
- Note on Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index