TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eldredge,Elizabeth A.
TI  - Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa: oral traditions and history, 1400-1830 
T2  - Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora,
SN  - 9781580465144 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
AV  - DT1107 .ELD 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Rochester, NY
PB  - University of Rochester Press
KW  - Chiefdoms
KW  - Africa, Southern
KW  - History
KW  - To 1899
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-424) and index; History and oral traditions in southeastern Africa -- Oral traditions in the reconstruction of southern African history -- Shipwreck survivor accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Founding families and chiefdoms east of the Drakensberg -- Maputo Bay peoples and chiefdoms before 1740 -- Maputo Bay, 1740-1820 -- Eastern chiefdoms of southern Africa, 1740-1815 -- Zulu conquests and the consolidation of power, 1815-21 -- Military campaigns, migrations, and political reconfiguration -- Ancestors, descent lines, and chiefdoms west of the Drakensberg before 1820 -- The Caledon River valley and the Basotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33 -- The expansion of the European presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33 -- Southern African kingdoms on the eve of colonization
ER  -