The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa : The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Central African Federation, 1959 -- Introduction -- Historiographical Approaches to Federation: Foundation and its Early Years -- Historiographical Issues and the End of Federation -- 1. Conception and the Early Years of Federation -- Acquiring the Charter -- Company Days -- Responsible Government -- Towards Federation -- Early Years, 1953-6 -- African Advancement -- 2. The Pipe Dream of Partnership, 1957-9 -- Welensky and Macmillan Take Office -- Partnership in Practice -- Southern Rhodesia: The Removal of Todd and Arrival of Whitehead -- Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Dr Banda Returns -- The 1959 Emergencies -- Repercussions of the Emergencies -- Devlin Commission -- Preparing for the Federal Constitutional Review and the British General Election -- 3. 'The Wind of Change', 1960-1 -- Macmillan Visits the Federation -- Recasting the Federation's Public Image in Britain -- Preparing for the Monckton Commission -- The Monckton Commission in the Federation -- Territorial Reviews -- Southern Rhodesian Constitutional Conference and the Northern Rhodesian Constitutional Review -- The Mining Companies and the 'Wind of Change' -- The United States and the Federation -- The Federation in the United Nations -- 4. A Failed Experiment, 1962-3 -- Maudling and the Northern Rhodesia Proposals -- Butler and the Central Africa Office -- Preparing for the Northern and Southern Rhodesian Elections -- The Federation, the United States and the United Nations -- Northern and Southern Rhodesian Elections -- South Africa and the Federation -- Dissolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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