| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 292 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Glossary of Swazi Terms -- PART ONE: SWAZILAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 1 Homesteads, Chiefs, and Kings -- 2 Cattle, Capital, and Commodity Production -- PART TWO: MINES AND MIGRANTS -- 3 Coercion, Co-optation, and Taxation -- 4 Rulers, Regiments, and Recruiters -- 5 Traders, Runners, and Recruits -- 6 Brewers, Workers, and the Local Mines -- PART THREE: LAND AND LABOUR -- 7 Land, Labour, and the Settler-Estate -- 8 Policy, Partition, and Protest -- 9 Landlords, Tenants, and Farm Workers -- 10 Continuity, Conflict, and Change |
| Summary |
The period 1890 - 1920 was characterized by the increasing domination of white over black in southern Africa and the associated expansion of a regional capitalist economy. Many largely self-sufficient African societies became heavily dependent on migrant wage labour and purchased food. These changes, together with the alienation of land for white settlement, transformed rural society, greatly accelerating the impoverishment of most Africans |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index |
| Subject |
Working class -- Eswatini -- History
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Economic history
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International relations
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Social conditions
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Working class
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| SUBJECT |
Eswatini -- Economic conditions
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Eswatini -- Social conditions
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Eswatini -- Relations -- South Africa
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South Africa -- Relations -- Eswatini
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South Africa
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Eswatini
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1282850814 |
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9781282850811 |
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0773505695 |
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9780773505698 |
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9780773561182 |
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0773561188 |
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