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First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of 'Southern Rhodesia', 'Rhodesia' as it has been termed since the old 'Northern Rhodesia' became independent under the name Zambia in 1963. Robert Blake describes the years of the Monomotapa; the Portuguese occupation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the Ndebele kingdom of the nineteenth century; the advent of Cecil Rhodes and the establishment of the Chartered Company which ruled Rhodesia until 1922; the period Southern Rhodesia enjoyed a self-governing colony from 1923 to 1951; the years of the Central African Federation from 1953 to its dissolution in 1963; and finally the dramatic course of events which led to Ian Smith's government making a unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. The years since UDI are covered by a long epilogue that takes the story forward to the early months of 1977.
Rhodesian history is a strange and intriguing compound of romance, idealism, courage, arrogance, avarice and accident. Rhodesia's story is not only that of economic, political, ideological and external forces which have shaped it—it is also that of the individuals who made—or failed to make decisions: Rhodes, Lobengula, Jameson, Lord Malvern, Roy Welensky, Garfield Todd, Joshua Nkomo, Ian Smith.
Written with access to many collections of papers not normally available to historians, Robert Blake's book is a major contribution to the history of colonial and post-colonial Africa.
Contents
Introduction Part One: The Chartered Company 1. The Land and the early conquerors 2. The Ndebele kingdom 1700-1886 3. Cecil Rhodes 1853-89 4. The concession and the Charter 1888-89 5. The Pioneer column 1889-90 6. The Map is drawn 1890-91 7. Settlement and war 1890-93 8. Conquest 1893-95 9. Rebellion 1896-97 10. The aftermath 1897-1902 11. The rule of the Company 1902-18 Part Two: A Self-Governing Colony 12. Responsible government 1914-23 13. The new order 1923-31 14. The decline of the Rhodesian Party 1927-33 15. The Huggins era 1933-39 16. War and aftermath 1939-48 17. The origins of Federation 1945-51 18. Federation achieved 1951-53 Part Three: Federation and the White Backlash 19. Southern Rhodesian Society 1946-53 20. The heyday of Federation 1953-57 21. A turning point 1957 22. The fall of Todd 1957-58 23. The decline of the Federation 1956-60 24. The eclipse of Whitehead 1960-62 25. The Rhodesian Front 1962-63 26. The Fall of Field 1964 27. Smith 1964-65 28. UDI 1965 Epilogue 1965-77 Appendix: The Beit Trust
