Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact e-bog
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An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a cri...
E-bog
875,33 DKK
Forlag
Springer
Udgivet
25 november 2005
Genrer
Cultural studies
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780306471568
An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding of history. Special attention is paid to the period of state formation in Swaziland and a critique of the `Settler Model', which the author finds to be invalid.