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Autore |
Grant William D |
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Titolo |
Zambia then and now [[electronic resource] /] / William D. Grant |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2008 |
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1-135-78444-2 |
1-281-90025-7 |
9786611900250 |
0-203-88390-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Colonial administrators - Zambia - Mwinilunga District |
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Great Britain Colonies Officials and employees Biography |
Mwinilunga District (Zambia) History 20th century |
Zambia Colonial influence |
Zambia Description and travel |
Zambia History 1953-1964 |
Zambia History 1964- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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