Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830 /
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| Author / Creator: | Eldredge, Elizabeth A., author. |
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| Imprint: | Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015. ©2015 |
| Description: | xi, 438 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 64 Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 64. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10328175 |
Table of Contents:
- History and oral traditions in southeastern Africa
- Oral traditions in the reconstruction of southern African history
- Shipwreck survivor accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Founding families and chiefdoms east of the Drakensberg
- Maputo Bay peoples and chiefdoms before 1740
- Maputo Bay, 1740-1820
- Eastern chiefdoms of southern Africa, 1740-1815
- Zulu conquests and the consolidation of power, 1815-21
- Military campaigns, migrations, and political reconfiguration
- Ancestors, descent lines, and chiefdoms west of the Drakensberg before 1820
- The Caledon River valley and the Basotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33
- The expansion of the European presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33
- Southern African kingdoms on the eve of colonization.
