Living the end of empire : : politics and society in late colonial Zambia / / edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinfelaar, Giacomo Macola.

Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia. The present volume, based on untapped archival material and sources that have emerged in recent years, th...

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Superior document:Afrika-Studiecentrum series, v. 21
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (345 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of 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.