The politics and economics of decolonization in Africa : the failed experiment of the Central African Federation / Andrew Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Andrew (Historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Africa.

Decolonization.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland--History.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"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 Cohen of the Colonial Office to create a Central African Federation. Drawing on newly released archival material, The Politics and Economics of Decolonization offers a fresh examination of Britain's central African territories in the late colonial period and provides a detailed assessment of how events in Britain, Africa and the UN shaped the process of decolonization. The author situates the Central African Federation - which consisted of modern day Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi - in its wider international context, shedding light on the Federation's complex relationships with South Africa, with US Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy and with the expanding United Nations. The result is an important history of the last days of the British Empire and the beginnings of a more independent African continent."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Map of Central African Federation, 1959

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conception and the Early Years of Federation

Chapter 2. The Pipe Dream of Partnership, 1957 - 9

Chapter 3. 'The Wind of Change', 1960 - 1

Chapter 4. A Failed Experiment, 1962 - 3

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350989108

135098910X

9781838609627

1838609628

9781786722164

178672216X

9781786732163

1786732165

OCLC:

1114462069