Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/78CgG1 Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979 A Race Against Time By: David Kenrick Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9783030326975, 3030326977 eText ISBN: 9783030326982, 3030326985 Copyright year: 2019 Format: EPUB Available from $ 89.00 USD SKU 9783030326982 This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979. It considers how white settlers used the past to make claims of authority in the present. It investigates the white Rhodesian state’s attempts to assert its independence from Britain and develop a Rhodesian national identity by changing Rhodesia’s old colonial symbols, and examines how the meaning of these national symbols changed over time. Finally, the book offers insights into the role of race in Rhodesian national identity, showing how portrayals of a ‘timeless’ black population were highly dependent upon circumstance and reflective of white settler anxieties. Using a comparative approach, the book shows parallels between Rhodesia and other settler societies, as well as other post-colonial nation-states and even metropoles, as themes and narratives of decolonisation travelled around the world.
