| Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bonner, Philip (Author), Anderson, David (Editor), Brown, Carolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521523001 ISBN-13: 9780521523004 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa |
| Dewey: 968.130 |
| Series: African Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.14" W x 9.12" (1.19 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |