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Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s (Paperback)
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Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and
Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Although there were many links in their
history and between their populations, the two territories (British
protectorates under Colonial Office control) contrasted greatly in
power structures, in their economies, and in their development.
Europeans living in Northern Rhodesia, with a power base in the
mining economy, were able to establish a dominant position in the
territory after the Second World War. By the 1950s it looked as
though they would have, with Southern Rhodesian Europeans, a long
hegemony, gaining independence from Britain as a new Dominion,
which would mean control over both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland
through the Federation. Thus, white ethnicity and ideology are
essential factors in this book relating to the struggle for power
from just before the Second World War up to the 1960s. However,
crises in 1959 and 1960 led to the collapse of the Federation. A
second focus is on issues of social and economic development. For
Africans in Nyasaland, and in rural parts of Northern Rhodesia,
there was a relatively weak economy in this period, a pattern of
limited cash crop production, while many people became caught up in
labour migration, subordinate to powerful European-dominated
economic forces within southern Africa. This meant that colonial
policies aimed at rural development were fundamentally flawed. The
book also looks at the actual nature of rural economic change (as
opposed to colonial policies) and discusses alternative visions of
the future which were put forward. The argument is put that
historians have often concentrated on the activities of the main
nationalist movements in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, seeing
them as bringing progress away from colonialism and towards
independence. Here there is an attempt to draw out the complexities
of life, and a variety of responses in the colonial situation,
progress coming in a number of forms, but not always being
achieved.
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