This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of inequality through marriage and inheritance patterns, and the simultaneous integration of age regiments and the elaboration of a national ideology based on the Swazi royalty. Dr Bonner then sets the Swazi state in the wider context of south-eastern Africa and discusses its relations with the surrounding Boer societies. The later chapters analyse the role played by the great mining companies and their white concessionaires in the partition of southern Africa and in bringing about the dissolution of the Swazi state.
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This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states formed during the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. It covers the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems; its relations with the surrounding Boer societies; and its eventual dissolution.
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Despite a relatively long tradition of historical scholarship, the historiography of nineteenth-century South Africa is uneven in quality and in places disappointingly sparse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
border commissioner, homestead heads, revenue concession, surplus appropriation, mineral concessions, royal herds, royal villages, tributary state, regimental system, mercantile capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Delagoa Bay, Pongola River, British Resident, Colonial Office, High Commissioner, Crocodile River, David Forbes, White Committee, Executive Council, Sir Theophilus, South Africa, Boundary Commission, New Scotland, Sir Hercules, Joint Commission, Komati River, London Convention, Lydenburg Boers, Secretary of State, Ndzundza Ndebele, Ohrigstad Boers, Blood River, Mkhondvo River, Offy Shepstone, Pretoria Convention New!
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Despite a relatively long tradition of historical scholarship, the historiography of nineteenth-century South Africa is uneven in quality and in places disappointingly sparse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
border commissioner, homestead heads, revenue concession, surplus appropriation, mineral concessions, royal herds, royal villages, tributary state, regimental system, mercantile capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Delagoa Bay, Pongola River, British Resident, Colonial Office, High Commissioner, Crocodile River, David Forbes, White Committee, Executive Council, Sir Theophilus, South Africa, Boundary Commission, New Scotland, Sir Hercules, Joint Commission, Komati River, London Convention, Lydenburg Boers, Secretary of State, Ndzundza Ndebele, Ohrigstad Boers, Blood River, Mkhondvo River, Offy Shepstone, Pretoria Convention New!
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- South Africa (Hans Wolff Memorial Lecture Series Part 1 Human Rights and Genocide/Part 2 Biography As Interpretation) by Leo Kuper on 11 pages
- The Oxford History of South Africa: by Monica Wilson on 5 pages
- A History of South Africa, Third Edition by Leonard Thompson on 4 pages
- Shaka Zulu: The Biography of the Founder of the Zulu Nation by E. A. Ritter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires : The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State by Philip Bonner in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification by Bruce Lincoln in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg in Back Matter
- From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (African Studies) by Robin Law on page 263
- The Shell Money of the Slave Trade (African Studies) by Jan Hogendorn in Front Matter
- State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante (African Studies) by T. C. McCaskie in Back Matter
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