BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EARLY HISTORY -- EARLY HUMANS AND STONE AGE SOCIETY -- THE KHOISAN -- THE SPREAD OF BANTU LANGUAGES -- FOOD PRODUCTION -- THE RISE OF MORE COMPLEX STATES -- TOUTSWE -- SWAHILI CULTURE -- MAPUNGUBWE AND GREAT ZIMBABWE -- TORWA, MUTAPA, AND ROZWI -- SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES -- CHAPTER 2 EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN INTERACTION -- THE PORTUGUESE IN WEST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN AFRICA -- THE IMBANGALA -- THE CHOKWE -- THE OVIMBUNDU -- THE PORTUGUESE IN SOUTHEASTERN AFRICA -- THE ZAMBEZI VALLEY -- OTHER SOUTHEASTERN AFRICAN STATES -- THE DECLINING POWER OF THE PORTUGUESE -- THE DUTCH AT THE CAPE -- FIRST KHOEKHOE-DUTCH CONTACT -- BOER EXPANSION -- SLAVERY AT THE CAPE -- KHOISAN RESISTANCE TO THE DUTCH -- XHOSA-DUTCH CONFLICT -- "LEGITIMATE" TRADE AND THE PERSISTENCE OF SLAVERY -- THE CONTINUATION OF THE SLAVE TRADE -- EFFECTS OF THE SLAVE TRADE -- THE "TIME OF TURMOIL" -- SHAKA AND THE CREATION OF THE ZULU -- INCREASING VIOLENCE IN OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA -- BRITISH DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPE COLONY -- CHANGES IN THE STATUS OF AFRICANS -- CONTINUING SETTLER-XHOSA WARS -- GROWTH OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY -- THE EXPANSION OF WHITE SETTLEMENT -- THE REPUBLIC OF NATALIA AND THE BRITISH COLONY OF NATAL -- VOORTREKKER REPUBLICS IN THE INTERIOR -- THE ORANGE FREE STATE AND BASUTOLAND -- MINERALS AND THE SCRAMBLE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA -- THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD -- THE ANNEXATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA -- PORTUGAL IN SOUTHERN AFRICA -- GERMANS IN SOUTH WEST AFRICA -- CHAPTER 3 SOUTHERN AFRICA FROM 1899 THROUGH DECOLONIZATION -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR -- THE NATURE OF COLONIAL RULE -- THE CHANGING LABOUR MARKET -- CHANGES FOR AFRIKANERS -- GROWTH OF RACISM -- BASUTOLAND, BECHUANALAND, AND SWAZILAND -- OVAMBOLAND -- SOUTHERN RHODESIA -- NYASALAND AND NORTHERN RHODESIA -- SETTLERS IN MOZAMBIQUE AND ANGOLA.

CLASS AND ETHNIC TENSIONS AMONG WHITE SETTLERS -- LAND, LABOUR, AND TAXATION -- WHITE AGRICULTURE AND AFRICAN RESERVES -- THE INVENTION OF TRIBALISM -- LABOUR AND THE MINING INDUSTRY -- THE IMPACT OF MIGRANT LABOUR -- URBANIZATION AND MANUFACTURING -- THE AFRICAN RESPONSE -- ROYAL FAMILY POLITICS -- POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TRADE UNIONS -- CHRISTIANITY AND AFRICAN POPULAR RELIGION -- THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II -- INDEPENDENCE AND DECOLONIZATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA -- CHAPTER 4 ANGOLA -- EARLY ANGOLA -- THE KONGO KINGDOM AND THE COMING OF THE PORTUGUESE -- COLONIAL TRANSITION (1820S-1910) -- FROM COLONIAL CONQUEST TO INDEPENDENCE (1910-75) -- INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR -- ANGOLA IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- CHAPTER 5 BOTSWANA -- EARLY PASTORAL AND FARMING PEOPLES -- KHOISAN-SPEAKING HUNTERS AND HERDERS -- BANTU-SPEAKING FARMERS -- IRON AGE STATES AND CHIEFDOMS -- EASTERN STATES AND CHIEFDOMS -- WESTERN CHIEFDOMS -- RISE OF TSWANADOM -- GROWTH OF TSWANA STATES -- TIMES OF WAR -- PROSPEROUS TRADING STATES -- BRITISH PROTECTORATE -- ADVANCE TO INDEPENDENCE -- BOTSWANA SINCE INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 6 LESOTHO -- EARLY HISTORY -- THE SOTHO KINGDOM (1824-69) -- BASUTOLAND -- THE KINGDOM OF LESOTHO -- THE FIRST TWO DECADES -- POLITICAL CRISIS -- CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- CHAPTER 7 MALAWI -- EARLY HISTORY -- COLONIAL RULE -- POSTINDEPENDENCE MALAWI -- THE BANDA REGIME (1963-94) -- MALAWI SINCE 1994 -- CHAPTER 8 MOZAMBIQUE -- PRECOLONIAL PERIOD -- EARLY SETTLEMENT -- THE RISE OF THE ZIMBABWE CIVILIZATIONS -- ARRIVAL OF THE PORTUGUESE -- SLAVES AND TRADE -- COLONIAL MOZAMBIQUE -- CONSOLIDATION OF PORTUGUESE CONTROL -- MOZAMBIQUE UNDER THE NEW STATE REGIME -- INDEPENDENCE -- MOZAMBIQUE AS A ONE-PARTY STATE -- PEACE IN MOZAMBIQUE -- CHAPTER 9 NAMIBIA -- EARLY HISTORY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE COLONIAL ERA -- THE GERMAN CONQUEST -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONQUEST.

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A COLONIAL BOOM -- FROM RESISTANCE TO LIBERATION STRUGGLE -- THE ROAD TO NAMIBIA -- INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 10 SOUTH AFRICA -- PREHISTORY -- THE EARLY STONE AGE -- THE MIDDLE STONE AGE -- THE LATE STONE AGE -- PASTORALISM AND EARLY AGRICULTURE -- THE IRON AGE -- IRON AGE SITES -- FIRST URBAN CENTRES -- EUROPEANS IN SOUTH AFRICA -- SETTLEMENT OF THE CAPE COLONY -- GROWTH OF THE COLONIAL ECONOMY -- INCREASED EUROPEAN PRESENCE (C. 1810-35) -- BRITISH OCCUPATION OF THE CAPE -- THE DELAGOA BAY SLAVE TRADE -- EMERGENCE OF THE EASTERN STATES -- THE EXPANSION OF EUROPEAN COLONIALISM (C. 1835-70) -- THE GREAT TREK -- THE BRITISH IN NATAL -- ATTEMPTS AT BOER CONSOLIDATION -- THE CAPE ECONOMY -- DISPUTES IN THE NORTH AND EAST -- THE ZULU AFTER SHAKA -- THE DECLINE OF THE AFRICAN STATES -- DIAMONDS, GOLD, AND IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION (1870-1902) -- DIAMONDS AND CONFEDERATION -- AFRIKANER AND AFRICAN POLITICS IN THE CAPE -- GOLD MINING -- THE ROAD TO WAR -- THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902) -- RECONSTRUCTION, UNION, AND SEGREGATION (1902-29) -- MILNER AND RECONSTRUCTION -- CONVENTION AND UNION -- BLACK, COLOURED, AND INDIAN POLITICAL RESPONSES -- UNION AND DISUNITY -- AFRIKANER REBELLION AND NATIONALISM -- SEGREGATION -- THE PACT YEARS (1924-33) -- THE APARTHEID YEARS -- THE INTENSIFICATION OF APARTHEID IN THE 1930S -- WORLD WAR II -- THE NATIONAL PARTY AND APARTHEID -- RESISTANCE TO APARTHEID -- THE UNRAVELING OF APARTHEID -- TRANSITION TO MAJORITY RULE -- POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- THE MANDELA PRESIDENCY -- SOUTH AFRICA SINCE MANDELA -- CHAPTER 11 SWAZILAND -- EARLY HISTORY -- EMERGENCE OF THE SWAZI NATION -- COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION -- SWAZILAND SINCE INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 12 ZAMBIA -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND EARLY HISTORY -- EXTERNAL CONTACTS -- COLONIAL RULE -- INDEPENDENT ZAMBIA -- ZAMBIA UNDER KAUNDA -- CHILUBA PRESIDENCY.

MWANAWASA AND BANDA ADMINISTRATIONS -- CHAPTER 13 ZIMBABWE -- EARLY HISTORY -- PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION -- THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY -- ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT -- SELF-GOVERNMENT -- FEDERATION -- RHODESIA AND THE UDI -- INDEPENDENCE -- A NEW GOVERNMENT -- THE ISSUE OF LAND REFORM AND THE RISE OF THE MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE -- INCREASING DISCORD -- ECONOMIC CRISIS -- 2008 ELECTIONS AND AFTERMATH -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SOUTHERN AFRICA TO 1800 -- SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1800-C. 1900 -- SOUTHERN AFRICA, C. 1900 TO THE PRESENT -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.