The Human Economy. Commerce as Politics : : The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence / / Sean M. Maliehe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Maliehe, Sean M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Human Economy ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Chronology --; Map --; Introduction --; PART I. The Rise and Fall of the Basotho Nation --; PART II. British Trading Monopoly and the Liberation Struggle --; PART III. Lesotho’s Postcolonial Counter-Revolution and Resistance to It --; Conclusion. Commerce as Politics --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789209822; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789209822?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sean M. Maliehe.

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.