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082 _a968.041 HAM
100 _aHamilton, Carolyn
245 _aThe Mfecane Aftermath
_b:Reconstructive debates in Southern African history
_c/ Carolyn Hamilton
260 _aJohannesburg
_b : University of Natal Press,
_c©1995.
300 _axvi, 493 pages
_b : illustrations, maps
_c ; 24 cm
365 _b4058
365 _b4296
505 _aIntroduction / 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.
520 _aWas 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.
650 _aHistory
650 _aHistory of Africa
650 _aRepublic of South Africa and neighboring southern African countries
650 _aSouth Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal.
650 _aSouth Africa -- Zululand.
650 _aZululand (South Africa) -- History -- To 1879 -- Congresses.
650 _aKwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- Congresses.
650 _aSouth Africa -- History -- Great Trek, 1836-1840 -- Congresses.
700 _aHamilton, Carolyn
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