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Title Living the end of empire : politics and society in late colonial Zambia / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinfelaar, Giacomo Macola
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Series Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 21
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 21.
Contents Part 1. Background: Introduction: a new take on late colonial Northern Rhodesia / Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar -- Northern Rhodesia: the post-war background, 1945-1953 / Andrew D. Roberts -- Part 2. The polyphony of African nationalism: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the formation of ZANC/UNIP: a reinterpretation / Giacomo Macola -- Kalonga Gawa Undi X, nationalists and the quest for freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Walima T. Kalusa -- The realization of a Catholic social doctrine in the context of the rise of nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Marja Hinfelaar -- Odd man out: labour, politics and Dixon Konkola / Kenneth P. Vickery -- Part 3. The unsettled world of settlers: Proletarians in paradise: the historiography and historical sociology of white miners on the Copperbelt / Ian Phimister -- Rivers of white: David Livingstone and the 1955 commemorations in the lost 'Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa' / Joanna Lewis -- Fears and fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950-1960 / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Indian political activism in colonial Zambia: the case of Livingstone's Indian traders / Friday Mufuzi -- Cinemas, spices and sport: recollections of Hindu life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia / Joan M. Haig -- Part 4. Participating observers: Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison's 'Fishing Area', Mweru-Luapula, 1948-1959 / Christopher M. Annear -- Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950-1960 / Andrew J. DeRoche
Summary Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Nationalism -- Zambia
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
British colonies
Colonial influence
Colonies -- Administration
Nationalism
Politics and government
Race relations
SUBJECT Zambia -- History -- 1924-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149605
Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149606
Zambia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149610
Zambia -- Colonial influence
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Race relations
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056633
Subject Africa
Zambia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gewald, Jan-Bart
Hinfelaar, Marja
Macola, Giacomo
ISBN 9789004210523
9004210520
1283270676
9781283270670
9786613270672
6613270679