Fearing that their "civilization" would be overwhelmed, a tiny
enclave of whites in Central Africa rebelled against a power which
a little more than twenty-five years before had ruled the largest
empire the world had ever known. Robert C. Good provides an
immensely readable account of the international politics of the
Rhodesian rebellion which, as he demonstrates, put great political
and financial strains on Great Britain, placed Zambia in mortal
danger, almost destroyed the multiracial Commonwealth, and promoted
an unprecedented involvement of the United Nations in programs of
dubious effectiveness and doubtful wisdom. The complex sequence of
events which led to the "unilateral declaration of independence" of
November 1965 and the settlement of November 1971 are probed, and
the policies of the British and Rhodesian governments analyzed,
particularly the actions and responses of Harold Wilson. Above all,
the Rhodesian crisis is placed in its international setting to show
that the failure to impose a transition towards majority rule in
Rhodesia has meant that a significant chance to reverse present
trends in Southern Africa towards the hardening of racial attitudes
and erosion of African confidence in Western intentions has been
lost. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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