Robert Blake

A History of Rhodesia (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of 'Southern Rhodesia', 'Rhodesia' as it has been termed since the old 'Northern Rhodesia' became independent under the name Zambia in 1963. Robert Blake describes the years of the Monomotapa; the Portuguese occupation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the Ndebele kingdom of the nineteenth century; the advent of Cecil Rhodes and the establishment of the Chartered Company which ruled Rhodesia until 1922; the period Southern Rhodesia enjoyed a self-governing colony from 1923 to 1951; the years of the Central African Federation from 1953 to its dissolution in 1963; and finally the dramatic course of events which led to Ian Smith's government making a unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. The years since UDI are covered by a long epilogue that takes the story forward to the early months of 1977.

Rhodesian history is a strange and intriguing compound of romance, idealism, courage, arrogance, avarice and accident. Rhodesia's story is not only that of economic, political, ideological and external forces which have shaped it-it is also that of the individuals who made-or failed to make decisions: Rhodes, Lobengula, Jameson, Lord Malvern, Roy Welensky, Garfield Todd, Joshua Nkomo, Ian Smith.

Written with access to many collections of papers not normally available to historians, Robert Blake's book is a major contribution to the history of colonial and post-colonial Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040297216
• Artikelnr.: 72314721

Autorenporträt

Robert Blake was an English historian. He was the author of the definitive biography of Disraeli. Educated at King Edward VI School, Norwich and Magdelan College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern Greats, he served in the Royal Artillery during the war, became a prisoner of war in Italy from 1942-4, and escaped. He was Senior Proctor, 1959-60 and a Conservative member of the Oxford City Council, 1957-65.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: The Chartered Company 1. The Land and the early conquerors 2. The Ndebele kingdom 1700
1886 3. Cecil Rhodes 1853
89 4. The concession and the Charter 1888
89 5. The Pioneer column 1889
90 6. The Map is drawn 1890
91 7. Settlement and war 1890
93 8. Conquest 1893
95 9. Rebellion 1896
97 10. The aftermath 1897
1902 11. The rule of the Company 1902
18 Part Two: A Self
Governing Colony 12. Responsible government 1914
23 13. The new order 1923
31 14. The decline of the Rhodesian Party 1927
33 15. The Huggins era 1933
39 16. War and aftermath 1939
48 17. The origins of Federation 1945
51 18. Federation achieved 1951
53 Part Three: Federation and the White Backlash 19. Southern Rhodesian Society 1946
53 20. The heyday of Federation 1953
57 21. A turning point 1957 22. The fall of Todd 1957
58 23. The decline of the Federation 1956
60 24. The eclipse of Whitehead 1960
62 25. The Rhodesian Front 1962
63 26. The Fall of Field 1964 27. Smith 1964
65 28. UDI 1965 Epilogue 1965
77 Appendix: The Beit Trust