1st Edition

Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa Volume 1: The Front Line states

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
Editors’ Introduction, Notes on contributors and editors, 1. Socio-Economic Formations of the Southern African Iron Age: An Overview, 2. The Development of Dependent Capitalism in Portuguese Africa, 3. Industrial Development in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi: The Primacy of Politics, 4. The Direction of Agricultural Development in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, 5. The Modem Economic History of Botswana, 6. Land and Labour in the Namibian Economy, Index

Biography

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.