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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Orthography and Names

Contributors

Introduction

Carolyn Hamilton

Part One: Historiography and Methodology

Putting the Mfecane Controversy into Historiographical Context

Norman Etherington

1.Pre-Cobbing Mfecane Historiography

Christopher Saunders

2.Old Wine in New Bottles

The Persistence of Narrative Structures in the Historiography of the Mfecane and the Great Trek

Norman Etherington

3.Hunter-Gatherers, Traders and Slaves

The 'Mfecane' Impact on Bushmen, Their Ritual and Their Art

Thomas A. Dowson

4.Language and Assassination

Cultural Negations in White Writers' Portrayal of Shaka and the Zulu

Dan Wylie

Part Two: The South-Eastern Coastal Region

Beyond the Concept of the 'Zulu Explosion'

Comments on the Current Debate

John Wright

5.Sources of Conflict in Southern Africa c.1800–1830

The 'Mfecane' Reconsidered

Elizabeth A. Eldredge

6.Political Transformations in the Thukela–Mzimkhulu

Region in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

John Wright

7.'The Character and Objects of Chaka'

A Reconsideration of the Making of Shaka as Mfecane Motor

Carolyn Hamilton

8.Matiwane's Road to Mbholompo

A Reprieve for the Mfecane?

Jeff Peires

9.Unmasking the Fingo

The War of 1835 Revisited

Alan Webster

10.The Mfecane Survives its Critics

John Omer-Cooper

Part Three: The Interior

'The time of troubles'

Difaqane in the Interior

Neil Parsons

11.Archaeological Indicators for Stress in the Western

Transvaal Region between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Simon Hall

12.Prelude to Difaqane in the Interior of Southern Africa

c. 1600–c. 1822

Neil Parsons

13.Conflict in the Western Highveld/Southern Kalahari

c. l750–1820

Andrew Manson

14.'Hungry Wolves'

The Impact of Violence on Rolong Life, 1823–1836

Margaret Kinsman

15.The Battle of Dithakong and 'Mfecane' Theory

Guy Hartley

16.Untapped Sources

Slave Exports from Southern and Central Namibia up to c. 1850

Jan-Bart Gewald

Glossary

Abbreviations

Bibliographer's Note

Bibliography

Complete List of Papers Presented at the Colloquium

Index

Maps

The coast of south-eastern Africa

South-eastern Africa, c. 1830

The Delagoa-Mzimkhulu region

The position of African peoples, 1834

The expulsions of the Rharhabe people 1829–34

The War of 1835

'Fingo' entry into the Cape colony

The location of Fingo in 1835

The Transvaal showing archaeological sites

The main geographical areas of the trans-Vaal interior

The highveld in the early nineteenth century

The central and northern highveld

Overland trade routes in south-western Africa up to 1840

Overland trade routes in south-western Africa from 1850

Mfecane Aftermath

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