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- Focuses on national symbols and national history to explore the origins of contemporary Zimbabwe
- Takes a comparative approach, examining white Rhodesia in relation to other post-colonial nationalisms in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s
- Offers new insights into how the white settlers of Rhodesia made sense of decolonisation
Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979. It considers how white settlers used the past to make claims of authority in the present. It investigates the white Rhodesian state’s attempts to assert its independence from Britain and develop a Rhodesian national identity by changing Rhodesia’s old colonial symbols, and examines how the meaning of these national symbols changed over time. Finally, the book offers insights into the role of race in Rhodesian national identity, showing how portrayals of a ‘timeless’ black population were highly dependent upon circumstance and reflective of white settler anxieties. Using a comparative approach, the book shows parallels between Rhodesia and other settler societies, as well as other post-colonial nation-states and even metropoles, as themes and narratives of decolonisation travelled around the world.
Authors and Affiliations
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London, UK
David Kenrick
About the author
David Kenrick is an independent scholar. He received his D.Phil in History from St John’s College, Oxford. He has published work in the Journal for Southern African Studies and regularly reviews books on imperial history, decolonisation and settler colonialism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979
Book Subtitle: A Race Against Time
Authors: David Kenrick
Series Title: Britain and the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32698-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32697-5Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32700-2Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32698-2Published: 02 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-7182
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Political History