Preface Introduction The Ngwane-Swazi Expanding and Consolidating Boundaries: The Transvaal Boundaries: Portuguese Territory The Concessions Scramble Independence Fades Governing by Committee Politics in Flux The Boer Administration Assassination: The King's Part? War in South Africa The British Takeover Annexation or Protectorate A Test of Wills Partition Carried Through Regency to Kingship Archival and Library Sources Abbreviations References and Notes Glossary Recent Books on Swaziland Index