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Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History

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Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History - Hamilton, Carolyn, and Dowson, Thomas, and Eldredge, Elizabeth
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The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history. Considerable dynamic debate has focused on the idea that this period - the 'mfecane'- left much of the interior depopulated, thereby justifying white occupation. One view is that 'the time of troubles' owed more to the Delagoa Bay Slave trade and the demands of the labour-hungry Cape colonists ...

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Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History 1995, Wits University Press

ISBN-13: 9781868142521

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