Artículos relacionados a Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African...

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization - Tapa blanda

White, Luise

 
9780226235196: Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 022623519X ISBN 13: 9780226235196
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2015

Sinopsis

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire. In Unpopular Sovereignty, Luise White shows that the exception that was Rhodesian independence did not, in fact, make the state that different from new nations elsewhere in Africa: indeed, this history of Rhodesian political practices reveals some of the commonalities of mid-twentieth-century thinking about place and race and how much government should link the two.

White locates Rhodesia’s independence in the era of decolonization in Africa, a time of great intellectual ferment in ideas about race, citizenship, and freedom. She shows that racists and reactionaries were just as concerned with questions of sovereignty and legitimacy as African nationalists were and took special care to design voter qualifications that could preserve their version of legal statecraft. Examining how the Rhodesian state managed its own governance and electoral politics, she casts an oblique and revealing light by which to rethink the narratives of decolonization.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Luise White is professor of history at the University of Florida. She is the author of four books, including The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
022623519X
ISBN 13 
9780226235196
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
360
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible