Victoria falls and colonial imagination in British Southern Africa : turning water into gold / Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois.
Series: African histories and modernitiesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xiv, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Media type:- 9781137596918
- 1137596910
- 968.9 23 ARR
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CONTENT
1. Introduction: Toward a transcolonial history of victoria falls
2. A cataract on the Zambezi; The waterfalls in precolonial context
3. Lewanika scramble for Africa; Barotseland and the british south Africa company
4. Staking their claim; White settlement at victoria falls
5. Performing Europe or redifining Africa;
The African social life of a colonial town
6. What is the trouble : Dispute and discontent in north western Rhodesia
7. Of more value to south Africa than all the diamonds
ever found or dreamed ; victoria falls and the hydroelectric power scheme
Bibliography : p. 265-284 . _ Index : p. 285 - 291
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