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Victoria falls and colonial imagination in British Southern Africa : turning water into gold / Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois.

By: Series: African histories and modernitiesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xiv, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Media type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781137596918
  • 1137596910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 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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