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| List of Figures | ||
| Foreword: "Ruins in a Wild Land" | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Background to the Study of Precolonial Southern Zambezia | 1 |
| 2 | The Landscapes of Southern Zambezia | 37 |
| 3 | The Pioneers: Early Herdsmen and Village Farmers | 73 |
| 4 | Cattle, Ivory and Gold; Traders, Chiefs, and Kings: Political Centralization in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, 950-1280 | 97 |
| 5 | Cattle, Gold, and Copper; Traders, Chiefs, and Kings: The Rise, Development, and Fall of Great Zimbabwe, 1290-1450 | 123 |
| 6 | Kings, Conquistadores, and Rebels: The Mutapa State and the Portuguese, 1450-1900 | 157 |
| 7 | Cattle Barons and Generals of the Southwest: The Torwa and Rozvi-Changamire States, c. 1450-1860 | 197 |
| 8 | Merchant Capital, Karanga Migrations, and the Arrival of the Nguni and the British | 221 |
| 9 | Conclusions: The Place of the Zimbabwe Plateau in Zambezia | 245 |
| Bibliography | 269 | |
| Author Index | 287 | |
| Subject Index | 291 | |
| About the Author | 305 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Larocque Sylvain
reviewed Zimbabwe Culture on June 30, 2016
Zimbabwe Culture
An amazing little read - short and punchy! Altbeker tackles the difficult topic of crime in South Africa and provides insights into why crime in our country is so violent.
The author traces the root causes for violent crime back to when the first European landed in the Cape - it seems that the use of legislated force to keep the majority stultified has been with us for a very long time. Also, the delayed ending of apartheid and the fact that South Africans have become extremely demotivated by the failures of government to deliver on their democratic promises has increased the general sense of angst and unhappiness. It seems, South Africans are quick to jump to violence as an alternative if their needs are not met.
I like Altbekers closing reference to VS Naipauls term of a "half-baked" society to describe current South Africa. It seems the prognosis depends on our collective mindset in tackling the difficult social and security issues we face.
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