Farmers, Kings, and Traders The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860

Name: Farmers, Kings, and Traders The People of Southern Africa, 200-1860
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ISBN: 9780226313269

ISBN-10: 0226313263

ISBN-13: 9780226313269

Edition: 1990

Authors: Martin Hall, Martin West

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In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement of the earliest farmers nearly two thousand years ago, Hall tracks the emergence of precolonial states such as Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Farmers, Kings, and Traders concludes with the devastating effects of colonialism. Through a close reading of the accounts of early travelers, colonialists, archaeologists, and historians, Hall places in context the often contradictory histories that have been written of this region. The result is an…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Farmers, kings and traders in southern Africa



Changing views: from barbarous tribes to Iron Age traditions



Origins: unwrapping the Iron Age package



Pioneers



Taking stock



The nature of society



Toutswe, Mapungubwe and the East coast trade



From desert to ocean: the Zimbabwe achievement



Great Zimbabwe



Kings and conquistadores, merchants and markets



Warriors, adventurers and slaves



Transformations in southern Africa


References


Index


Acknowledgements