A South African Kingdom : The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830; 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s; 4. The land of the Basotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824?64; 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834?68; 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines; 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization; 8. The allocation of labor, 1830?1910; 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1839?1910; 10. Women, reproduction, and production; 11. The Basotho and the rise of the regional European market, 1830?1910; 12. The colonial imposition and the failure of the local economy, 1871?1910; 13. Economy, politics, migrant labor and gender; 14. In pursuit of security; Appendix; Note on oral sources.