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Historical Dictionary of Lesotho, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
List of contents
Preface
Reader's Note
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendix
Genealogy of the Kings of Lesotho
Lesotho's Heads of Government (1965-2022)
Bibliography
About the Authors
About the author
John Aerni-Flessner is an associate professor of history in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University (Research Fellow in the Department of History in the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. He has published on Basotho history, focusing on development, decolonization, and the history of the Lesotho-South Africa border. Charles Fogelman is a teaching assistant professor in the Global Studies Program at the University of Illinois. He is a geographer whose research focuses on land, gender, and development. Nthabiseng Mokoena-Mokhali is a lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the National University of Lesotho where she teaches in the Archaeology, Heritage and Cultural Studies and Environmental History Majors. Her archaeological research has been centered on Thaba Bosiu and she is a board member for the Royal Museum of Lesotho as well as a research associate for the University of the Witwatersrand.
Summary
Historical Dictionary of Lesotho, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
