Timothy Stapleton

Professor

Director of the History Masters Program

M.A., Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
(705) 748-1011 x 7841

tstapleton@trentu.ca

                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research interests:African History with a special interest in Southern Africa and Zimbabwe; Resistance to Colonial Conquest; The Development of Ethnic Identity; Oral tradition as Historical Evidence; War and Society

Select publications: A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2010). 

No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East African Campaign of the First World War, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

 

Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom, c.1780-1867, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.

 

Maqoma: Xhosa Resistance to Colonial Advance, c.1798-1873, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1994.  With C. Youe (eds.)  

Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays in Honour of John Flint, London: Palgrave (MacMillan), 2001.