Author: Thompson, Leonard Monteath, editor:
Title: African Societies in Southern Africa : Historical Studies
Description: London, Heinemann, (1972). Reprint. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, vii,336 pp. PAPERBACK.. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing. Name on titlepage. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: Early Iron-using Peoples of Southern Africa; The Later Iron-Age in South Africa; The Sotho-Tswana Peoples Before 1800; The Traditions of the Natal 'Nguni': A Second Look at the Work of A.T. Bryant; Interaction Between Xhose and Khoi: Emphasis on the Period 1620-1750; The Trade of Delagoa Bay as a Factor in Nguni Politics 1750-1835; The Distribution of Sotho Peoples after the Duifaqane; Aspects of Political Change in the 19th-century Mfecane; The 'Other Side' of Frontier History: A Model of Cape Nguni Political Progress; The External Relartions of the Ndebele Kingdom in the Prepartition Era; The Passing of Sotho Independence 1865-70; Great Britain & the Zulu People, 1879-87; etc.

Keywords: African Political History, Southern Africa, Ethnic, Historical, Ethnology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Historiography,