| Author |
Pikirayi, Innocent.
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| Title |
The Zimbabwe culture : origins and decline of southern Zambezian states / Innocent Pikirayi. |
| OCLC |
45387060 |
| ISBN |
075910090X |
| Publisher |
Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [2001] |
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©2001 |
| Description |
xxx, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Bantu-speaking peoples -- History.
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Monomotapa Empire -- History.
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Zambezi River Valley -- History.
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Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Background to the study of precolonial southern Zambezia -- The landscapes of southern Zambezia -- The pioneers: early herdsmen and village farmers -- Cattle, ivory and gold: traders, chiefs, and kings: political centralization in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, 950-12380 -- Cattle, gold, and copper: traders, chiefs, and kings: the rise, development, and fall of Great Zimbabwe, 1290-1450 -- Kings, conquistadores, and rebels: the Mutapa State and the Portuguese, 1450-1900 -- Cattle barons and generals of the southwest: the Torwa and Rozvi-Changamire States, c.1450-1860 -- Merchant capital, Karanga migrations, and the arrival of the Nguni and the British -- Conclusions: the place of the Zimbabwe Plateau in Zambezia. |
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