KINGS, COMMONERS AND CONCESSIONAIRES

Bonner, Philip

ISBN 10: 0521242703 / ISBN 13: 9780521242707

Verlag: C.U.P. African Studies Series 31, 1983 1st edition, 1983

Beschreibung

10+315 pages, bibliography, maps, figures : the first full-length study of the political economy of Swaziland "the Evolution & Dissolution of the C19th Swazi State"; hardback, corners sl bumped ow vg, g++ dw (sun-faded spine) isbn 0521242703 swaziland south africa swazi boers boer history swazi history swazi royalty. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16065

Bibliografische Details

Titel: KINGS, COMMONERS AND CONCESSIONAIRES

Verlag: C.U.P. African Studies Series 31, 1983 1st edition

Erscheinungsdatum: 1983

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe:

A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.

Reseña del editor:

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.