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The Mfecane aftermath : reconstructive debates in Southern African history

Title
The Mfecane aftermath : reconstructive debates in Southern African history / edited by Carolyn Hamilton.
Publication
Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press ; Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, [1995], ©1995.

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  • Hamilton, Carolyn.
  • Colloquium on 'The "Mfecane" Aftermath' (1991 : University of the Witwatersrand)
Description
xvi, 493 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
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Note
  • "This book comprises a revised selection of the papers delivered at the colloquium "The Mfecane Aftermath: Towards a New Paradigm", held at the University of the Witwatersrand in September 1991"--P. ix.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-477) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Carolyn Hamilton -- Putting the Mfecane Controversy into Historiographical Context / Norman Etherington -- 1. Pre-Cobbing Mfecane Historiography / Christopher Saunders -- 2. Old Wine in New Bottles: The Persistence of Narrative Structures in the Historiography of the Mfecane and the Great Trek / Norman Etherington -- 3. Hunter-Gatherers, Traders and Slaves: The 'Mfecane' Impact on Bushmen, Their Ritual and Their Art / Thomas A. Dowson -- 4. Language and Assassination: Cultural Negations in White Writers' Portrayal of Shaka and the Zulu / Dan Wylie -- Beyond the Concept of the 'Zulu Explosion': Comments on the Current Debate / John Wright -- 5. Sources of Conflict in Southern Africa c. 1800-1830: The Mfecane Reconsidered / Elizabeth A. Eldredge -- 6. Political Transformations in the Thukela-Mzimkhulu Region in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / John Wright --
  • 7. 'The Character and Objects of Chaka': A Reconsideration of the Making of Shaka as Mfecane Motor / Carolyn Hamilton -- 8. Matiwane's Road to Mbholompo: A Reprieve for the Mfecane? / Jeff Peires -- 9. Unmasking the Fingo: The War of 1835 Revisited / Alan Webster -- 10. The Mfecane Survives its Critics / John Omer-Cooper -- 'The time of troubles' Difaqane in the Interior / Neil Parsons -- 11. Archaeological Indicators for Stress in the Western Transvaal Region between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Simon Hall -- 12. Prelude to Difaqane in the Interior of Southern Africa c. 1600-c. 1822 / Neil Parsons -- 13. Conflict in the Western Highveld/Southern Kalahari c. 1750-1820 / Andrew Manson -- 14. 'Hungry Wolves': The Impact of Violence on Rolong Life, 1823-1836 / Margaret Kinsman -- 15. The Battle of Dithakong and 'Mfecane' Theory / Guy Hartley -- 16. Untapped Sources: Slave Exports from Southern and Central Namibia up to c. 1850 / Jan-Bart Gewald.
ISBN
1868142523
OCLC
ocm34325809
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries