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Author Grant, William

Title Zambia Then and Now : Colonial Rulers and Their African Successors
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Series Kegan Paul Africa Library
Kegan Paul Africa Library
Contents BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART A MEMOIRS OF A COLONIAL DISTRICT OFFICER, 1958 TO 1961; CHAPTER ONE BEGINNINGS; CHAPTER TWO PEOPLE AND POWERS; CHAPTER THREE THE PLACE; CHAPTER FOUR LAW AND ORDER; CHAPTER FIVE THE JOB; CHAPTER SIX AFRICANS; CHAPTER SEVEN DISTRICT OFFICER ON TOUR; CHAPTER EIGHT EVENTS; CHAPTER NINE DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS AND PASTIMES; CHAPTER TEN REFLECTIONS; CHAPTER ELEVEN ENDINGS; PART B FROM BRITISH COLONY TO INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND; CHAPTER TWELVE ZAMBIAN POLITICS, 1950-2006
PART C ZAMBIA NOW: IMPRESSIONS OF A FORMER DISTRICT OFFICER, RETURNING 45 YEARS LATERCHAPTER THIRTEEN DIARY OF A BWANA WHO CAME BACK, FROM JUNE 24 TO JULY 25, 2006; CHAPTER FOURTEEN ZAMBIA'S ECONOMY; CHAPTER FIFTEEN FROM THEN TO NOW: WHAT HAS CHANGED; APPENDICES; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX III; APPENDIX IV; APPENDIX V; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their African successors in the context of history and the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing colonial society with that of the independent African country that Northern Rhodesia has become
Notes Print version record
Subject History.
Colonial administrators -- Zambia -- Mwinilunga District -- Biography
Grant, William D
Grant, William D. -- Travel -- Zambia
Mwinilunga District (Zambia) -- History -- 20th century
history (discipline)
Colonial administrators.
Civil service, Colonial.
Travel.
Employees.
Colonial influence.
British colonies.
History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Officials and employees -- Biography
Zambia -- Colonial influence
Zambia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005250
Subject Zambia -- Mwinilunga District.
Zambia.
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203883907
020388390X