Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War : Forgotten Colonial Crisis.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Foreword by Hew Strachan -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Pre-War Northern Rhodesia: The Structural Weaknesses of Colonial Control -- 2 War Labour Recruitment and Mobilisation: The Roots of Crisis -- 3 Advent of a 'White Man's War': Early Implications for the Survival of White Supremacy -- 4 Colonial Dependence and African Opportunity: The Indigenous Response to War Exigencies -- 5 Crumbling Foundations of the Colonial Edifice: Chiefs and Headmen at War -- 6 The Strain of Total War: A Colonial State in Retreat -- 7 The Nadir of Colonial Power in Northern Rhodesia -- 8 Reconquest and Reconstruction -- Glossary -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African resistance at this time.

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