The Zimbabwe culture: origins and decline of southern Zambezian states

Background to the study of precolonial southern Zambezia

The landscapes of southern Zambezia

The pioneers: early herdsmen and village farmers

Cattle, ivory and gold: traders, chiefs, and kings: political centralization in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, 950-12380

Cattle, gold, and copper: traders, chiefs, and kings: the rise, development, and fall of Great Zimbabwe, 1290-1450

Kings, conquistadores, and rebels: the Mutapa State and the Portuguese, 1450-1900

Cattle barons and generals of the southwest: the Torwa and Rozvi-Changamire States, c.1450-1860

Merchant capital, Karanga migrations, and the arrival of the Nguni and the British

Conclusions: the place of the Zimbabwe Plateau in Zambezia.