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Commerce as Politics
The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic IndependenceThe Human Economy, Band 8 1. Aufl.
37,99 € |
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Verlag: | Berghahn Books |
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Veröffentl.: | 13.01.2021 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781789209822 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 168 |
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<p> This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce. Although the colonial and post-colonial periods were unfavourable to the Basotho, they have, before and after colonial rule, launched impressive commercial initiatives of their own, which bring hope for greater development and freedom in their struggle for economic independence.</p>
<p> Acknowledgements<br> Chronology</p>
<p> <a><strong>Introduction</strong></a></p>
<p> <strong>Part I: The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> The Formation of the Basotho Nation, 1820s-1870s<br> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Loss of Economic Independence, 1870s-1890s</p>
<p> <strong>Part II: British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Colonial Commerce, 1870s-1930s<br> <strong>Chapter 4</strong>. Basotho in Colonial Commerce, 1900s-1966<br> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> The Political Struggle for Reform of Trade, 1900s-1966</p>
<p> <strong>Part III: Lesotho’s Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6.</strong> The Developmental State and Lesotho’s Counter-Revolution, 1966-1986<br> <strong>Chapter 7.</strong> The Military Dictatorship and the Neoliberal Turn, 1986-2010s<br> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Business Politics and the Collapse of the Congress, 2000s-2020<br> <strong>Chapter 9.</strong> The Rise of a Chinese Trading Monopoly and of Mobile Money, 2000s-2020</p>
<p> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Commerce as Politics</p>
<p> Index</p>
<p> <a><strong>Introduction</strong></a></p>
<p> <strong>Part I: The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> The Formation of the Basotho Nation, 1820s-1870s<br> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Loss of Economic Independence, 1870s-1890s</p>
<p> <strong>Part II: British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Colonial Commerce, 1870s-1930s<br> <strong>Chapter 4</strong>. Basotho in Colonial Commerce, 1900s-1966<br> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> The Political Struggle for Reform of Trade, 1900s-1966</p>
<p> <strong>Part III: Lesotho’s Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6.</strong> The Developmental State and Lesotho’s Counter-Revolution, 1966-1986<br> <strong>Chapter 7.</strong> The Military Dictatorship and the Neoliberal Turn, 1986-2010s<br> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Business Politics and the Collapse of the Congress, 2000s-2020<br> <strong>Chapter 9.</strong> The Rise of a Chinese Trading Monopoly and of Mobile Money, 2000s-2020</p>
<p> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Commerce as Politics</p>
<p> Index</p>
<p> <strong>Sean M. Maliehe</strong> is an economic historian and ethnographer of commerce, money and mobile phones in Lesotho and South Africa (Diepsloot). He has held two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pretoria: Human Economy Programme, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship (2016-2018) and Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (2019-2020).</p>