The politics and economics of decolonization in Africa : the failed experiment of the Central African Federation /
The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation - supporting the efforts of Sir Andrew...
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2017
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| Series: | International library of African studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Author Biography; 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 ReturnsThe 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 FederationThe 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.
