Living the end of empire
Subtitle: politics and society in late colonial Zambia
By: edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinfelaar, Giacomo Macola
Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum series -- v. 21; Afrika-Studiecentrum series -- v. 21.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9789004209862
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Colonial influence; Nationalism; Colonies; Administration; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Background: Introduction: a new take on late colonial Northern Rhodesia / Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar; title: Northern Rhodesia: the post-war background, 1945-1953 / Andrew D. Roberts; title: Part 2. The polyphony of African nationalism: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the formation of ZANC/UNIP: a reinterpretation / Giacomo Macola; title: Kalonga Gawa Undi X, nationalists and the quest for freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Walima T. Kalusa; title: The realization of a Catholic social doctrine in the context of the rise of nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Marja Hinfelaar; title: Odd man out: labour, politics and Dixon Konkola / Kenneth P. Vickery; title: Part 3. The unsettled world of settlers: Proletarians in paradise: the historiography and historical sociology of white miners on the Copperbelt / Ian Phimister; title: Rivers of white: David Livingstone and the 1955 commemorations in the lost 'Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa' / Joanna Lewis; title: Fears and fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950-1960 / Jan-Bart Gewald; title: Indian political activism in colonial Zambia: the case of Livingstone's Indian traders / Friday Mufuzi; title: Cinemas, spices and sport: recollections of Hindu life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia / Joan M. Haig; title: Part 4. Participating observers: Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison's 'Fishing Area', Mweru-Luapula, 1948-1959 / Christopher M. Annear; title: Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950-1960 / Andrew J. DeRoche.