Elizabeth A. Eldredge

The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This scholarly account traces the emergence of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa in the early nineteenth century.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781107428027
• ISBN-10: 1107428025
• Artikelnr.: 50018559

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Eldredge is an independent scholar. She has published A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (Cambridge, 1993) and Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Political history in precolonial Africa: the case of the AmaZulu Kingdom
2. Powerful chiefs before Shaka
3. Shaka's early life: oral traditions, tales, and history
4. Shaka as warrior
5. AmaZulu expansion and repercussions: early conflicts and migrations
6. Chiefs, chiefdoms, violence, and political reconfiguration
7. Challenges and consolidation, 1824-7
8. Royal women: authority and subservience
9. Zulu voices, Zulu meanings: ancestors, praises, and history
10. Shaka's rule: social configuration and social control
11. Shaka's ambitions
12. The legacy of Shaka's reign
Appendix: James Stuart interviewees.