A tempest in a teapot? Nineteenth-century contests for land in South Africa's Caledon Valley and the invention of the mfecane

Journal of African History

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-219

  Etherington, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Historiography; Land; Lesotho; Precolonial; South Africa; Violence

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; CALEDON VALLEY; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 3543099827     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853703008624     Document Type: Article

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