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Author:   Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781107428027

ISBN 10:   1107428025
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   08 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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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).

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