African societies in Southern Africa : historical studies
1969, 1st edition. London : Heinemann. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #397457
ISBN: 0435328816
Physical description: xiii, 336 pages maps 23 cm. Notes: Papers of a conference held at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, in July, 1968. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: The forgotten factor in southern African history / Leonard Thompson - Early iron-using peoples of southern Africa / D.W. Phillipson - The later Iron Age in South Africa / Brian Fagan - Changes in social structure in southern Africa: the relevance of kinship studies to the historian / Monica Wilson - The Sotho-Tswana peoples before 1800 / Martin Legassick - The traditions of the Natal 'Nguni': a second look at the work of A.T. Bryant / Shula Marks - Interaction between Xhosa and Khoi: emphasis on the period 1620-1750 / Gerrit Harinck - The trade of Delagoa Bay as a factor in Nguni politics, 1750-1835 / Alan Smith - The distribution of Sotho peoples after the Difaqane / William Lye - Aspects of political change in the nineteenth-century Mfecane / John Omer-Cooper - The 'other side' of frontier history: a model of Cape Nguni political progress / David Hammond-Tooke - The external relations of the Ndebele kingdom in the prepartition era / Richard Brown - The passing of Sotho independence, 1865-70 / Anthony Atmore - Great Britain and the Zulu people, 1879-87 / Colin Webb. Subjects: Ethnology Africa, Southern; Congresses, addresses, essays, lectures; South Africa Native races History; Africa, Southern History To 1899 ; Congresses; Southern Africa 19th century; Southern Africa 20th century.
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