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List of plates | ||
List of maps | ||
List of place names | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Shona World and its Origins | 15 |
Structures and Environments | 16 | |
Languages and their Frontiers | 23 | |
Dialects and Names | 28 | |
Theories of Origins | 32 | |
2 | Society and Economy | 43 |
An Outline of a Shona Village 1880s-1890s | 43 | |
The People of the Village | 50 | |
Health and Demography | 53 | |
Village Farming | 55 | |
Local Politics | 59 | |
Village Industry | 61 | |
Comparisons over Space and Time | 63 | |
3 | The Early States of the Shona c.1000-1700 | 68 |
Defining the Imprecise | 68 | |
The Origins of a Third-World Economy | 71 | |
Different Trails to Great Zimbabwe | 74 | |
Great Zimbabwe | 82 | |
Torwa and Venda | 93 | |
The Origins of the Mutapa State and the Eastern Shona | 97 | |
The Mutapa State in Close-up | 102 | |
The Coming of the Portuguese | 108 | |
War and Politics in the East | 110 | |
4 | Two Centuries of Change c.1700-1890 | 112 |
Economic Decline and Change | 113 | |
Decline and Change in the Mutapa State | 115 | |
The Portuguese 'Conquest' | 117 | |
The Changamire State | 119 | |
Local Shona Politics | 122 | |
The Nyanga Culture | 126 | |
The Mfecane Problem | 129 | |
The Ndebele State | 133 | |
The Gaza State | 137 | |
The Independent Shona in the Nineteenth Century | 139 | |
5 | Beliefs and Political Thought | 142 |
The Thought of the Prehistoric Era | 142 | |
Theory and Practice: The Internal and the External | 144 | |
Forces of the External | 147 | |
Forces of the Internal | 150 | |
Political Thought: Theory | 153 | |
Political Thought: Practice | 155 | |
Foreign Thought | 160 | |
6 | Conquest, Change and Challenge 1890-1990 | 164 |
The Road to Conquest | 165 | |
Conquest and Resistance | 166 | |
Colonial Rule | 171 | |
Nationalism, War and Transition | 180 | |
A Century of Change | 183 | |
Chronology of Events | 196 | |
Notes | 203 | |
Glossary | 225 | |
Bibliography | 227 | |
Index | 240 |
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