The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe

ISBN-13: 9780367663735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Kate Law

Opis

Over 50 years since Rhodesia declared independence, Zimbabwe remains haunted by the legacies of colonialism. This book examines one of Britain’s most intractable decolonial episodes and the local and global forces that resulted in independence. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Histor

Spis treści

Introduction – Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa  1. Globalisation and Decolonisation  2. Money, Banking and Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence  3. Big Business and White Insecurities at the End of Empire in Southern Africa, c.1961–1977  4. Tanzania and the 1976 Anglo-American Initiative for Rhodesia  5. The Anglo-American and Commonwealth Negotiations for a Zimbabwean Settlement between Geneva and Lancaster, 1977–1979  6. Race and Policy: Britain, Zimbabwe and the Lancaster House Land Deal

O autorze

Kate Law is a NRF fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Research Fellow in the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of Free State, South Africa. She is currently writing a monograph about the social history of Depo-Provera during apartheid.