Elizabeth Eldredge's Kingdoms and Chieftains of Southeastern Africa is a valuable addition to an extensive corpus of writings examining indigenous state formation across the southern Bantu world.

• PrefaceHistory and Oral Traditions in Southeastern AfricaOral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African HistoryShipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesFounding Families and Chiefdoms East of the DrakensbergMaputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740Maputo Bay, 1740-1820Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political ReconfigurationAncestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of ColonizationAppendix A: AmaSwazi King ListAppendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of ShakaAppendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral TraditionsNotesBibliographyIndex

Elizabeth Eldredge's Kingdoms and Chieftains of Southeastern Africa is a valuable addition to an extensive corpus of writings examining indigenous state formation across the southern Bantu world.

• PrefaceHistory and Oral Traditions in Southeastern AfricaOral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African HistoryShipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesFounding Families and Chiefdoms East of the DrakensbergMaputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740Maputo Bay, 1740-1820Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political ReconfigurationAncestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of ColonizationAppendix A: AmaSwazi King ListAppendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of ShakaAppendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral TraditionsNotesBibliographyIndex