1984/07/01 by Ian Phimister · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #African history and culture studies #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Compromise #State (computer science) #Guard (computer science) #Metropolitan area #Government (linguistics) #History #Political science #Cabinet (room) #Law #Economic history #Political economy #Sociology #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021853700028176
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Although Southern Rhodesia's settler minority won responsible government from Britain in 1923, it was on terms circumscribed by the interests of metropolitan accumulation. As the dependent partner, Southern Rhodesia was obliged to accept constitutional provisions seeking to guard against initiatives which might disturb that process. Consequently, the settler state found itself hamstrung when it tried to gain some say over how the railway system operated. It was even less successful when it turned its attention to base mineral mining, where a handful of large companies did pretty much as they pleased. Efforts to find overseas markets for cattle and tobacco were also unsatisfactory. Neither the state nor settler producers could obtain the terms they wanted. Accumulation proceeded on terrain designed and dominated by imperialism.