Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires

Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires
Title Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires PDF eBook
Author Philip Bonner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 332
Release 2002-05-16
Genre History
ISBN 9780521523004

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

Kings, Commoners, and Concessionaires

Kings, Commoners, and Concessionaires
Title Kings, Commoners, and Concessionaires PDF eBook
Author P. L. Bonner
Publisher
Pages 315
Release 1983
Genre Eswatini
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Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires

Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires
Title Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires PDF eBook
Author Philip Bonner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 1997-08
Genre
ISBN 9780869751282

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

The Kingdom of Swaziland

The Kingdom of Swaziland
Title The Kingdom of Swaziland PDF eBook
Author D. Hugh Gillis
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 224
Release 1999-03-30
Genre History
ISBN 031303009X

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A scholarly and engaging study, this history of Swaziland, by an author who spent many years in the kingdom, presents a vivid account of the interplay of politics and personalities along the passage to post-colonial independence. From the early stages of Swazi occupation of the present-day kingdom to the accession of Sobhuza II as king in 1921, this book traces problems in consolidating leadership under the Dlamini chieftaincy and examines the infuence of Boer and British settlers, and of mining and commercial interests, on Swazi culture and governance. It recounts the story of a thriving small nation that sought to maintain traditional customs and institutions in the face of a powerful European presence. Each of the sixteen chapters concentrates on an aspect of political history that has influenced the character of the present-day kingdom, and much of the material, especially after 1900, has not been utilized in previous studies. The introduction looks at Swazi experience in a contemporary context, evaluating historic forces that have made for stability in a rapidly changing world. Other sections detail the Swazi reaction to European-controlled neighboring states (the Transvaal, Natal, and Mozambique), the tensions introduced by successive Boer and British policies, the Swazi detachment during two external wars (1899-1902 and 1914-1918), and widespread concerns about colonialism and self-governance following World War I.

African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona

African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona
Title African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona PDF eBook
Author Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publisher Springer
Pages 310
Release 2017-08-06
Genre History
ISBN 331956787X

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This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of public intellectuals such as Magolwane kaMkhathini Jiyane and Mshongweni to present African perspectives of King Dingane as multifaceted, and in some cases, constructed according to socio-political formations and aimed at particular audiences. By bringing African perspectives to the fore, this innovative historiography centralizes indigenous African languages in the production of historical knowledge.

Blood from Your Children

Blood from Your Children
Title Blood from Your Children PDF eBook
Author Benedict Carton
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 236
Release 2000
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780813919324

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The young black activists whose rejection of their parents' complacency led to the 1976 Soweto uprising and the eventual demise of apartheid are part of a long tradition of generational conflict in South Africa. In Blood from Your Children, Benedict Carton traces this intense challenge to an extraordinary and pivotal episode a century ago that bitterly divided families along generational lines. Facing a series of ecological disasters that crippled agriculture in the 1890s, African youths in colonial Natal and Zululand perceived their fathers' struggle to meet increased colonial demands as an act of betrayal. Young people engaged more frequently in premarital sex, while young men sparked widespread gang fights, and young women rejected traditional filial and marital obligations. In 1906, after the imposition of an onerous head tax on young men, this domestic turmoil exploded into an armed uprising known as Bambatha's Rebellion. The young men sought revenge by attacking both the African patriarchs whose apparent accomodation they considered traitorous and the colonial troops dispatched to quell the violence. After the Natal forces crushed the insurrection, some captured rebels faced trial for treason under martial law. Often, their fathers testified against them. While the military intervention eventually caused many more African youths to seek work in the mines, thus defusing generational turmoil, others moved to industrial centers in the wake of the uprising. These young people formed the vanguard of insurgent political groups that continue to play an important role in South African urban life. Through his lively and thorough presentation of the forces at work in Bambatha's Rebellion, Benedict Carton brings a fresh understanding to the tragic role of defiant youth and generational rivalry in African resistance.

Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa

Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa
Title Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa PDF eBook
Author B. G. Martin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 288
Release 2003-02-13
Genre History
ISBN 9780521534512

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Professor Martin considers the social and political aspects of the revival of the Muslim brotherhoods, or sufi in the nineteenth century. This revival had as its main goal the defence of Islam, and though it the sufi orders acquired great, and indeed unprecedented, political and social influence.