ISBN:
0-521-24270-3
,
978-0-521-24270-7
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 315 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 31
Keywords:
Swaziland Swazi
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Dlamini IV, König, Swaziland
;
Mbandzeni 〉 Dlamini IV, König, Swaziland
Abstract:
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. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of maps -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The northern Nguni states 1700-1815 -- 3. The conquest state 1820-1838 -- 4. Factions and fissions: Mswati's early years -- 5. The balance tilts: Swazi-Boer relations 1852-1865 -- 6. The deepening and widening of Dlamini power 1852-1865 -- 7. Regency and retreat 1865-1874 -- 8. Confederation, containment and conciliar rule: Mbandzeni's apprenticeship 1874-1881 -- 9. The puff-adder stirs: Mdandzeni and the beginnings of concessions 1881-1886 -- 10. The conquest by concessions 1886-1889 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Inde
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-303
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Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977, entitled The Rise, Consolidation and Disintegration of Dlamini Power in Swaziland Between 1820 and 1889. A Study in the Relationship of Foreign Affairs to Internal Political Development
