Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War
Subtitle: forgotten colonial crisis
By: Edmund James Yorke, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
Series: Studies in military and strategic history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137435774
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Colonies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-war Northern Rhodesia: the structural weaknesses of colonial control; title: Labour recruitment and mobilisation: the roots of crisis; title: Advent of a "white man's war": early implications for the survival of white supremacy; title: Colonial dependence and African opportunity: the indigenous response to war exigencies; title: Crumbling colonial foundations: chiefs and headmen at war; title: The strain of total war: a colonial state in retreat; title: The nadir of colonial power in Northern Rhodesia; title: Re-conquest and reconstruction.