Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires

A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.

Zusammenfassung
This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states formed during the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. It covers the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems; its relations with the surrounding Boer societies; and its eventual dissolution.

Inhalt
List of maps; List of figures; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The northern Nguni states 1700-1815; 3. The conquest state 1820-1838; 4. Factions and fissions: Mswati's early years; 5. The balance tilts: Swazi-Boer relations 1852-1865; 6. The deepening and widening of Dlamini power 1852-1865; 7. Regency and retreat 1865-1874; 8. Confederation, containment and conciliar rule: Mbandzeni's apprenticeship 1874-1881; 9. The puff-adder stirs: Mdandzeni and the beginnings of concessions 1881-1886; 10. The conquest by concessions 1886-1889; 11. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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