Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War Forgotten Colonial Crisis / Edmund James Yorke, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK.

Author/creator Yorke, Edmund James
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Descriptionxxxi, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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SeriesStudies in military and strategic history
Contents Pre-war Northern Rhodesia: the structural weaknesses of colonial control -- Labour recruitment and mobilisation: the roots of crisis -- Advent of a "white man's war": early implications for the survival of white supremacy -- Colonial dependence and African opportunity: the indigenous response to war exigencies -- Crumbling colonial foundations: chiefs and headmen at war -- The strain of total war: a colonial state in retreat -- The nadir of colonial power in Northern Rhodesia -- Re-conquest and reconstruction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index.
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LCCN 2015003814
ISBN9781137435774

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