Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War : forgotten colonial crisis /

Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War is an insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Using extensive official and private records from Britain and Zambia and the testimonies of a few surv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yorke, Edmund James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:Studies in military and strategic history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Temas:
1890-1924
World War, 1914-1918 > Zambia.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Zambie.
African history.
Military history.
History: earliest times to present day.
Warfare & defence.
Colonialism & imperialism.
HISTORY > Africa > South > General.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
British colonies
Zambia > History > 1890-1924.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > History.
Zambie > Histoire > 1890-1924.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Histoire.
Africa
Zambia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pre-war Northern Rhodesia: the structural weaknesses of colonial control
  • Labour recruitment and mobilisation: the roots of crisis
  • Advent of a "white man's war": early implications for the survival of white supremacy
  • Colonial dependence and African opportunity: the indigenous response to war exigencies
  • Crumbling colonial foundations: chiefs and headmen at war
  • The strain of total war: a colonial state in retreat
  • The nadir of colonial power in Northern Rhodesia
  • Re-conquest and reconstruction.

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