urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe
Subtitle: Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
By: Timothy Scarnecchia.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- v. 35
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580462815
Subjects: Mzingeli, Charles; Democracy -- Zimbabwe -- History; Political violence -- Zimbabwe -- History; Political culture -- Zimbabwe -- History; Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1890-1965; Harare (Zimbabwe) -- Politics and government; Highfield (Zimbabwe) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charles Mzingeli's leadership and imperial working-class citizenship; title: Township protest politics; title: Resistance to the Urban Areas Act and women's political influence; title: Changing tactics : youth league politics and the end of accommodation; title: The early sixties : violent protest and "sellout" politics; title: The "imperialist stooge" and new levels of "sellout" political violence; title: The ZAPU-ZANU split and the battlegrounds of Harare and Highfield.