Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The British Advance into the Interior -- Prelude: How the Competitors Moved into Position -- The Struggle for the Southern Approaches -- 2 The Rudd Concession and Its Enemies -- 3 Company Promotion and the Charter -- 4 The Pioneers and Their Rivals -- 5 The Company, the Foreign Office, and Portugal -- 6 Jameson's War, I: The Incidents and the Intrigue -- 7 Jameson's War, II: The Victory of the Maxim Gun -- 8 Bricks without Straw -- The Company's Finances -- The Government -- The Matabeleland Order-in-Council -- 9 The White Society, 1890-1896 -- 10 The Black Experience, 1890-1896 -- 11 The Rebellion, I: Umvukela -- 12 The Rebellion, II: Chimurenga -- Mashonaland, 1896 -- Matabeleland: The Indabas -- Mashonaland: The Second Phase -- 13 The Fate of the Vanquished -- 14 White Politics -- 15 War and Peace -- Glossary -- 1 -- A -- D -- E -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- U -- Z -- 2 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- 3 -- P -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.