Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

by Luise White

Book Overview

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire. In Unpopular Sovereignty, Luise White shows that the exception that was Rhodesian independence did not, in fact, make the state that different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022623505X
• ISBN13: 9780226235059
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"