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Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830 /
"This study traces the social and political history of the peoples of early precolonial southeastern Africa, including the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique from Maputo Bay southward, and Lesotho. The emergence in the early nineteenth century of well-known southern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;
64. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- History and oral traditions in southeastern Africa
- Oral traditions in the reconstruction of southern African history
- Shipwreck survivor accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Founding families and chiefdoms east of the Drakensberg
- Maputo Bay peoples and chiefdoms before 1740
- Maputo Bay, 1740-1820
- Eastern chiefdoms of southern Africa, 1740-1815
- Zulu conquests and the consolidation of power, 1815-21
- Military campaigns, migrations, and political reconfiguration
- Ancestors, descent lines, and chiefdoms west of the Drakensberg before 1820
- The Caledon River valley and the Basotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33
- The expansion of the European presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33
- Southern African kingdoms on the eve of colonization.