‘More a Cause than a Country’: Historiography, UDI and the Crisis of Decolonisation in Rhodesia

2016/09/02 by Tinashe Nyamunda · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #African studies and sociopolitical issues #Decolonization #Development economics #Economics #Historiography #History #Law #Political economy #Political science #Politics

paper · doi:10.1080/03057070.2016.1222796

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Abstract

Studies on Zimbabwe in the late 1990s and beyond have undergone a significant shift from the earlier triumphalist nationalist history uncritically celebrating the attainment of majority rule and th...

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