:Reconstructive debates in Southern African history Hamilton, Carolyn creator Hamilton, Carolyn text Johannesburg : University of Natal Press ©1995 monographic eng

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xvi, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Was the ""mfecane"" a figment of historians' imagination? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection. 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. / Carolyn Hamilton History History of Africa Republic of South Africa and neighboring southern African countries South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal South Africa -- Zululand Zululand (South Africa) -- History -- To 1879 -- Congresses KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- Congresses South Africa -- History -- Great Trek, 1836-1840 -- Congresses 968.041 HAM 9781868142521 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220110 20220916162948.0