Author: Lewis H. GannPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : Zimbabwe
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A History of Southern Rhodesia
Author: Lewis H. GannPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : Zimbabwe
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A History of Southern Rhodesia
Author: Lewis Henry GannA History of Southern Rhodesia
Author: A History of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Lewis H. GannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
"Largely confines itself to the sotry of Nrothern Rhodesia under British governance."--Preface
Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953
Author: Abraham MlomboPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030542831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book provides the first comprehensive study of the ‘special relationship’ between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. While most studies approach this from the history of British and South African relations or the history of South African territorial expansion, this book offers new insights by examining Southern Rhodesia’s relations with South Africa from the former’s perspective. Exploring relations through the lens of settler colonialism, the book argues that settler colonialism in the region was marked by a competitive and antagonistic relationship between settler communities, particularly Afrikaner and English communities. The book explores the connections between these countries by examining (high) politics, economic links, and social and cultural ties, highlighting both instances of competition and cooperation. Above all, it argues that economic ties were the cornerstone of the relationship and that these shaped the rest of the ties between the two countries. Drawing on archival records from Britain, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as a number of secondary sources, it offers a much more nuanced perspective of this relationship than has been previously offered.
Area Handbook for Southern Rhodesia
Author: Harold D. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zimbabwe
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Colonial Lessons
Author: Carol SummersPublisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780325070476
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Studying of the meanings of education, mission identities, and cultural change in Southern Rhodesia, Summers shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. From the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the Second World War, Africans in Southern Rhodesia experienced massive changes. Colonialism was systematized, segregation grew rigid and intensive, and economic changes affected every aspect of life from assembling bridewealth to entrepreneurial opportunities. This book provides a challenging portrayal of the possibilities and limits of African agency within the colonial context. Mission-educated Africans who aspired to elements of European material culture experienced these transformations most directly. Individually and collectively, they met the barriers erected by an increasingly restive white settler population and Native administration. This book details the strikes organized by students and parents, struggles over curricula, efforts of African teachers to improve their professional status, and conflicts between colonial officials regarding administrative control over schools and development programs. Summers reveals the ways in which these tensions and conflicts allowed select groups of Africans to reconfigure and, to some extent, appropriate aspects of European power.
Plunder for Profit
Author: Elijah DoroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009115367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability.
Surfacing Up
Author: Lynette JacksonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type." Through reconstruction and reinterpretation of patient narratives, Jackson shows how patients were diagnosed, detained, and deemed recovered. She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed the way citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order.
Reaction to Colonialism
Author: Henry S. MeebeloPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719010293
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
"Traces African reaction to colonial rule in the Northern Province of Zambia from the early days of European intrusion to the eve of the Second World War."--Dust jacket flap.