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Victoria Falls and colonial imagination in British Southern Africa : turning water into gold / Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arrington, Andrea L., author.
- Series:
- African histories and modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--History.
- Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe).
- Great Britain--Colonies--Africa.
- Great Britain.
- Africa.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--19th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction: toward a transcolonial history of Victoria Falls
- "A cataract on the Zambezi": the waterfalls in precolonial context
- Lewanika's scramble for Africa: Barotseland and the British South Africa Company
- Staking their claim: white settlement at Victoria Falls
- Performing Europe or redefining African: the African social life of a colonial town
- "What is the trouble?": Dispute and discontent in North Western Rhodesia
- 'Of more value to South Africa than all the diamonds ever found or dreamed:' Victoria Falls and the hydroelectric power scheme
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137596918
- 1137596910
- OCLC:
- 957140435
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