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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 Afric...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester
Boydell & Brewer,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa
- 2 Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African History
- 3 Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- 4 Founding Families and Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg
- 5 Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740
- 6 Maputo Bay, 1740-1820
- 7 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815
- 8 Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21
- 9 Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration
- 10 Ancestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820
- 11 The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33
- 12 The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33
- 13 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization
- Appendix A: Ama Swazi King Lists
- Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of Shaka
- Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral Traditions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.