Zambia then and now / William D. Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, William D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grant, William D.

Grant, William D--Travel--Zambia.

Colonial administrators--Zambia--Mwinilunga District--Biography.

Colonial administrators.

Great Britain--Colonies--Officials and employees--Biography.

Great Britain.

Mwinilunga District (Zambia)--History--20th century.

Mwinilunga District (Zambia).

Zambia--Colonial influence.

Zambia.

Zambia--Description and travel.

Zambia--History--1953-1964.

Zambia--History--1964-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by a member of the last generation of British Colonial Service Officers in Africa, the book seeks to place both colonial rulers and their African successors in the context of history and the circumstances of their time, viewing their achievements and failures critically but not unsympathetically and comparing colonial society with that of the independent African country that Northern Rhodesia has become. Colonialism is viewed at the day to day level of the administration of a rural district by four officers and a handful of African district messengers, who worked together without ev

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART A MEMOIRS OF A COLONIAL DISTRICT OFFICER, 1958 TO 1961; CHAPTER ONE BEGINNINGS; CHAPTER TWO PEOPLE AND POWERS; CHAPTER THREE THE PLACE; CHAPTER FOUR LAW AND ORDER; CHAPTER FIVE THE JOB; CHAPTER SIX AFRICANS; CHAPTER SEVEN DISTRICT OFFICER ON TOUR; CHAPTER EIGHT EVENTS; CHAPTER NINE DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS AND PASTIMES; CHAPTER TEN REFLECTIONS; CHAPTER ELEVEN ENDINGS; PART B FROM BRITISH COLONY TO INDEPENDENCE AND BEYOND; CHAPTER TWELVE ZAMBIAN POLITICS, 1950-2006

PART C ZAMBIA NOW: IMPRESSIONS OF A FORMER DISTRICT OFFICER, RETURNING 45 YEARS LATERCHAPTER THIRTEEN DIARY OF A BWANA WHO CAME BACK, FROM JUNE 24 TO JULY 25, 2006; CHAPTER FOURTEEN ZAMBIA'S ECONOMY; CHAPTER FIFTEEN FROM THEN TO NOW: WHAT HAS CHANGED; APPENDICES; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX III; APPENDIX IV; APPENDIX V; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-78444-2

1-281-90025-7

9786611900250

0-203-88390-X

9780203883907

OCLC:

437236630