Mfecane Aftermath : Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History PDF
by Carolyn Hamilton, Thomas Dowson, Elizabeth Eldredge, Norman Etherington, Jan-Bart Gewald, Simon Hall, Guy Hartley, Margaret Kinsman, Andrew Manson, John Omer-Cooper, Neil Parsons, Jeff Peires, Christopher Saunders, Alan Webster, John Wright, Dan Wylie
Edited by Carolyn Hamilton
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The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history.
Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period – the ‘mfecane’- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation.
One view is that ‘the time of troubles’ owed more to the Delagoa Bay Slave trade and the demands of the labour-hungry Cape colonists than to Shaka’s empire building.
But is there sufficient evidence to support the argument?The Mfecane Aftermath investigates the very nature of historical debate and examines the uncertain foundations of much of the previous historiography.
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1995
- ISBN:9781868146994
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1995
- ISBN:9781868146994