Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia

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