Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eldredge, Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Series:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 64.
Subjects:
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.