A History of Southern Africa

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.

African history is a growing and popular area of History, particularly in the US. There are now an increasing number of courses offered focused on Southern Africa or covering Southern Africa in the context of broader World history.
. There is a gap in the market for a book that provides broader coverage of the Southern Africa region taking in a longer time span (the key competition tends to focus just on South Africa over the last 00 years).
. Neil Parsons is a highly respected historian of Southern Africa, with a track record of writing accessibly for the student market. His A New History of Southern Africa (Macmillan Education) aimed at the school's market has sold over 0,000 copies.

Préface
This textbook provides a concise yet comprehensive account of the History of Southern Africa, from the stone age to the present day, drawing on social, economic, cultural and political history, as well as archaeology, anthropology and environmentalism.

Auteur
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.

Contenu

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