Kings, commoners, and concessionaires: the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state

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Title:	Kings, commoners, and concessionaires: the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state
Author:	Bonner, Philip
Year:	1983
Issue:	31
Pages:	315
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:	Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521242703
Geographic term:	Swaziland - Eswatini
Subjects:	colonial conquest history
Abstract:	The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of society through conquest, the entrenching of inequality through marriage and inheritance patters, and the simultaneous integration of the state through the institution of age regiments and the elaboration of a national ideology. The later chapters set the Swazi state in the wider context of south-eastern Africa and analyse the role of the great mining companies in bringing about the dissolution of the Swazi state.