Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-981-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maliehe, Sean M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Introduction

Part I: The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation

Chapter 1. The Formation of the Basotho Nation, 1820s-1870s

Chapter 2. The Loss of Economic Independence, 1870s-1890s

Part II: British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle

Chapter 3. Colonial Commerce, 1870s-1930s

Chapter 4. Basotho in Colonial Commerce, 1900s-1966

Chapter 5. The Political Struggle for Reform of Trade, 1900s-1966

Part III: Lesotho’s Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It

Chapter 6. The Developmental State and Lesotho’s Counter-Revolution, 1966-1986

Chapter 7. The Military Dictatorship and the Neoliberal Turn, 1986-2010s

Chapter 8. Business Politics and the Collapse of the Congress, 2000s-2020

Chapter 9. The Rise of a Chinese Trading Monopoly and of Mobile Money, 2000s-2020

Conclusion: Commerce as Politics

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maliehe, Sean M.
Sean M. Maliehe 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).