Living the End of Empire
Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia
Biographical note
Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) in History, Leiden University, is a historian at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the relationship between people and technology in Africa.
Marja Hinfelaar, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Utrecht University, is an historian working at the National Archives of Zambia, where she coordinates digitisation projects. Her research interests include the historical relationship between church and state in Zambia.
Giacomo Macola, Ph.D. (2000) in History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Lecturer in African History at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Researcher at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles on Zambian history. He is currently working on 'A Social History of Firearms in Central Africa to the Early Twentieth Century'.
Marja Hinfelaar, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Utrecht University, is an historian working at the National Archives of Zambia, where she coordinates digitisation projects. Her research interests include the historical relationship between church and state in Zambia.
Giacomo Macola, Ph.D. (2000) in History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Lecturer in African History at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Researcher at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles on Zambian history. He is currently working on 'A Social History of Firearms in Central Africa to the Early Twentieth Century'.
Readership
All those interested in Central African, Colonial and Imperial History. In particular this book will appeal to academics and graduate students interested in the complexities of the late-colonial period.
Reviews
Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia, ed. by Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinflaar, and Giacomo Macola. Brill, 2011. 333p index afp (Afrika-studiecenturm, 21); ISBN 9789004209862 pbk, $60.00. Reviewed in 2012 mar CHOICE.
'This well-integrated collection honors senior Zambianist historian Andrew Roberts (who contributes an introductory overview) without trying to encompass his manifold interests. It attains greater coherence than a typical festschrift by focusing on the last years of colonialism, particularly the contentious Central African Federation era of c.1953-63. Solid individual chapters cover European setters; the Indian community; the political roles of the Catholic Church, traditional chiefs, and labor unions; and early US diplomatic contacts. Christopher Annear's essay on the Luapula River fishery notably advances the ongoing restudy of classic Rhodes-Livingstone Institute ethnographies. Perhaps most significant is coeditor Macola's revisionist view of pioneering nationalist leader Harry Nkumbula, crediting him with more astuteness and dedication than standard accounts. The editors dispute conventional views of an inevitable triumph by Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party, which governed from 1964 to 1991. They emphasize clashing political visions among urban migrant elites in Lusaka, the Copperbelt and its northern hinterland, and Southern Province peasant producers represented by Nkumbula. This volume steers Zambian history in fruitful new directions and provides valuable components of any new consensus that may emerge.
Summing Up: Recommended. Academic and large public libraries; all levels. -- T. P. Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
'This well-integrated collection honors senior Zambianist historian Andrew Roberts (who contributes an introductory overview) without trying to encompass his manifold interests. It attains greater coherence than a typical festschrift by focusing on the last years of colonialism, particularly the contentious Central African Federation era of c.1953-63. Solid individual chapters cover European setters; the Indian community; the political roles of the Catholic Church, traditional chiefs, and labor unions; and early US diplomatic contacts. Christopher Annear's essay on the Luapula River fishery notably advances the ongoing restudy of classic Rhodes-Livingstone Institute ethnographies. Perhaps most significant is coeditor Macola's revisionist view of pioneering nationalist leader Harry Nkumbula, crediting him with more astuteness and dedication than standard accounts. The editors dispute conventional views of an inevitable triumph by Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party, which governed from 1964 to 1991. They emphasize clashing political visions among urban migrant elites in Lusaka, the Copperbelt and its northern hinterland, and Southern Province peasant producers represented by Nkumbula. This volume steers Zambian history in fruitful new directions and provides valuable components of any new consensus that may emerge.
Summing Up: Recommended. Academic and large public libraries; all levels. -- T. P. Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Table of contents
Contents
Dedication ...................................................................................................................vii
Andrew D. Roberts: An Appreciation ......................................................................ix
John McCracken
Background
1. Introduction: A New Take on Late Colonial Northern Rhodesia ....................3
Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar
2. Northern Rhodesia: The Post-War Background, 1945–1953 ..........................15
Andrew D. Roberts
The Polyphony of African Nationalism
3. Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the Formation of ZANC/UNIP: A Reinterpretation ......27
Giacomo Macola
4. Traditional Rulers, Nationalists and the Quest for Freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...........67
Walima T. Kalusa
5. The Realization of a Catholic Social Doctrine in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...............................91
Marja Hinfelaar
6. Odd Man Out: Labour, Politics and Dixon Konkola ...................................111
Kenneth P. Vickery
The Unsettled World of Settlers
7. Proletarians in Paradise: The Historiography and Historical Sociology of White Miners on the Copperbelt....141
Ian Phimister
8. Rivers of White: David Livingstone and the 1955 Commemorations in the Lost ‘Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa’ ...................................161
Joanna Lewis
9. Fears and Fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950–1960 ...............................207
Jan-Bart Gewald
10. Indian Political Activism in Colonial Zambia: The Case of Livingstone’s Indian Traders ...................229
Friday Mufuzi
11. Cinemas, Spices and Sport: Recollections of Hindu Life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia ....................249
Joan M. Haig
Participating Observers
12. Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison’s ‘fi shing area’, Mweru-Luapula, 1948–1959.......................273
Christopher M. Annear
13. Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US Relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950–1960 .......299
Andrew J. DeRoche
About the Authors ....................................................................................................327
Index ..........................................................................................................................329
Dedication ...................................................................................................................vii
Andrew D. Roberts: An Appreciation ......................................................................ix
John McCracken
Background
1. Introduction: A New Take on Late Colonial Northern Rhodesia ....................3
Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar
2. Northern Rhodesia: The Post-War Background, 1945–1953 ..........................15
Andrew D. Roberts
The Polyphony of African Nationalism
3. Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the Formation of ZANC/UNIP: A Reinterpretation ......27
Giacomo Macola
4. Traditional Rulers, Nationalists and the Quest for Freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...........67
Walima T. Kalusa
5. The Realization of a Catholic Social Doctrine in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...............................91
Marja Hinfelaar
6. Odd Man Out: Labour, Politics and Dixon Konkola ...................................111
Kenneth P. Vickery
The Unsettled World of Settlers
7. Proletarians in Paradise: The Historiography and Historical Sociology of White Miners on the Copperbelt....141
Ian Phimister
8. Rivers of White: David Livingstone and the 1955 Commemorations in the Lost ‘Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa’ ...................................161
Joanna Lewis
9. Fears and Fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950–1960 ...............................207
Jan-Bart Gewald
10. Indian Political Activism in Colonial Zambia: The Case of Livingstone’s Indian Traders ...................229
Friday Mufuzi
11. Cinemas, Spices and Sport: Recollections of Hindu Life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia ....................249
Joan M. Haig
Participating Observers
12. Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison’s ‘fi shing area’, Mweru-Luapula, 1948–1959.......................273
Christopher M. Annear
13. Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US Relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950–1960 .......299
Andrew J. DeRoche
About the Authors ....................................................................................................327
Index ..........................................................................................................................329
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