Overview
- Offers the first constitutional history of Swaziland (Eswatini)
- Examines the alliance between King Sobhuza and apartheid South Africa and the role it played in shoring up the monarchical system
- Foregrounds the struggle for power between monarchists and progressive, Western-educated elites
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Introduction
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Colonial Phase
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Book Title: A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982
Authors: Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24777-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24776-8Published: 02 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24779-9Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24777-5Published: 25 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 366
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, Legal History, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism