From early human civilisation to today, this book illuminates the history of southern Africa. Interweaving social, cultural and political history, archaeology, anthropology and environmentalism, Neil Parsons and Alois Mlambo provide an engaging account of the region’s varied past. Placing African voices and agency at centre stage rather than approaching the subject through a colonial lens, A History of Southern Africa provides an engrossing narrative of the region.
This textbook is ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History and African Studies, and will provide an essential grounding for those taking courses in the history of southern Africa. Its lively and accessible approach will appeal to anyone with an interest in global history.
By:
Alois S. Mlambo (University of Pretoria),
Neil Parsons
Imprint: Red Globe Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9780230294110
ISBN 10: 0230294111
Series: Bloomsbury Essential Histories
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 20 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Middle & Later Stone Age The Iron Age to c.1300 Later Iron Age Societies to c.1685 Early States & European Colonies, c.1600-c.1790 Coastal & Interior Frontier Wars, c.1790-c.1868 Scramble for Africa Part 1, c.1868-1902 Scramble for Africa Part 2, 1902-1919 Golden Years for Colonialism, 1919-1948 Apartheid & African Nationalism, 1948-1967 Years of Revolutionary Insurgence, 1967-1990 Southern Africa since 1990 General Bibliography & General Videography Index
Alois S. Mlambo is professor emeritus in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has taught at several universities in the last four decades, including Bayero University in Nigeria, University of Zimbabwe, the Universities of Minnesota, Duke, North Carolina and Pretoria. Neil Parsons has forty years teaching experience at universities in Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana, and South Africa, with short-term research positions at Universities of Oxford, London, California at Berkeley, Australian National, and Leiden.
