A History of the African People of South Africa: from the Early Iron Age to the 1970s- Paul Maylam

Paperback .David Philip 1986.  Third Impression 1989. 259 pages including index.  Some browning but generally in good condition.

" ...... in the past fifteen years extensive new research into the history of African societies in South Africa has been published. Much of this writing, however has reached a relatively small readership of academics and senior students.. A primary aim of this book, which ranges over the subcontinent, including present day Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, is to compress and synthesise the findings of this research in the hope that it will be filtered through to a wider audience.

The book tries to look inside these African societies, examining their internal dynamics, regional variations, and processes of change over time. Two broad phases are covered: firstly the precolonial, precapitalist era, beginning some 1700 years ago with the Early Iron Age; and secondly, the period from mid-nineteenth century when colonial subjugation gradually evolved into the modern apartheid system."

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