Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War : forgotten colonial crisis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yorke, Edmund James (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Studies in military and strategic history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	Zambia > History > 1890-1924. World War, 1914-1918 > Zambia. Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > History. History. World War (1914-1918) 1890 - 1924 British colonies. Africa. Zambia.

Table of Contents:

Pre-war Northern Rhodesia: the structural weaknesses of colonial control
Labour recruitment and mobilisation: the roots of crisis
Advent of a "white man's war": early implications for the survival of white supremacy
Colonial dependence and African opportunity: the indigenous response to war exigencies
Crumbling colonial foundations: chiefs and headmen at war
The strain of total war: a colonial state in retreat
The nadir of colonial power in Northern Rhodesia
Re-conquest and reconstruction.