Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa
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A01=Jane L. Parpart
A01=Timothy M. Shaw
A01=Z.A. Konczacki
Author_Jane L. Parpart
Author_Timothy M. Shaw
Author_Z.A. Konczacki
Bechuanaland Protectorate
BNU
canarium
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Colonial Administration
communal
Companhia De
De Angola
dependent capitalism
Early Iron Age
EIA Farmer
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european
great
Great Zimbabwe
ilede
Industrial Evolution
ingombe
labour migration history
land tenure systems
Large Scale Sector
Liberation Wars
mode
Mozambique Company
Namibia
Northern Rhodesia
political economy southern Africa
Poor Peasantry
postcolonial economic transformation
primitive
Purchase Areas
regional industrialisation
Rich Peasantry
Rural Capitalist Class
Rural Class Formation
schweinfurthii
South West Africa
Southern African Development Coordination
Southern African Iron Age
Southern Rhodesia
state capitalist development analysis
TGLP
West Germany
zimbabwe
Product details
- ISBN 9780714640716
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1990
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1990. Both the history and the historiography of Southern Africa are in flux as the 1990s open. This collection of original studies by a new generation of Southern African scholars seeks to go beyond established analyses and debates. The current watershed challenges old and new orthodoxies alike. This collection treats the economic history of six states-Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - and several sectors in the prevailing state capitalist political economies - agriculture and industry, land and labour. Whilst the book opens with a chapter on the regional iron age, its focus is mainly contemporary, yet recognising the continuing impacts of regional and global history. The authors adopt a variety of perspectives, reflective of their cases and contents, but the balance is towards critical and radical scholarship, reflecting Southern African realities as well as the contributors' generation. Common to the economic historians who have contributed to this volume is a realisation of the fading boundary between social and cultural history and their own disciplines. Increasingly perceptible also is the influence of political forces on the economic life of the region, whether it is the dependence of the Southern African 'periphery' on the yet more industrialised Western 'centre', or the relationship between the narrower 'periphery' of the Front-Line States vis-a-vis the 'centre' as represented by the power of South Africa. This theme of politics having its roots deeply embedded in the rich soil of the controversial socio-economic issues appears in a widened perspective in the companion collection of studies on the remaining countries of the region: South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Zbignlew A. Konczackl is Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and his books include Public Finance and Economic Development of Natal 1893-1910 (Duke University Press, 1967), and The Economics of Pastoralism: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa (Cass, 1978). Jane L. Parpart, Associate Professor of History, Dalhousie University, has written Labour and Capital on the African Copperbelt and co-edited, with Sharon Stichter, Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workplace. Timothy M. Shaw is Professor of Political Science and Director of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, where he has also served as Director of the Centre for African Studies. His publications include Economic Crisis in Africa, Towards a Political Economy for Africa, Coping with Africa's Food Crisis, and Corporatism in Africa.
