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This is the first full- length historical analysis of Victoria Falls. The text offers a critical examination of Victoria Falls providing new insight into the British Southern African project and reveals how Victoria Falls became one of the first modern African tourist destinations. This book makes a case for a critical reading of Victoria Falls as much more than a localized natural wonder. Europeans with multiple and often competing agendas, as well as African leaders and laborers were brought into contact with one another at Victoria Falls. Their visions of the past and hopes for the future shared Victoria Falls as a common point of inspiration. The value these parties placed on the Falls extended far beyond its location on the Zambezi and had broad implications for the British Empire in Southern and Central Africa. .

History. --- History, Modern. --- Africa --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Great Britain --- African History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Modern History. --- Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe) --- Social conditions. --- Colonies --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Annals --- Africa-History. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- World history --- Africa—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- 1800-1999 --- Africa. --- Zimbabwe --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Zambia

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“This volume makes a compelling case for the powerful influence of key individuals acting on behalf the US and British governments on Kenyatta’s political evolution. Addressing the long-neglected theme of the specific process by which a neo-colonial regime succeeded colonial rule, this is an invaluable contribution to the fields of Kenyan and modern African history.” –Robert Maxon, Professor of History, West Virginia University, USA The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It analyzes the nature and extent of the collaboration between Kenyatta, Britain and Western intelligence services to install and protect his government in Kenya—a collaboration which is linked to some of Kenya's most intractable political, social and economic problems. Drawing heavily on primary sources, it examines the legacy of Kenyatta's regime, and how this legacy is felt in Kenya today.

Colonies --- Law and legislation. --- Colonial law --- Law, Colonial --- Law --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa-Politics and government. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- African Politics. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa—Politics and government.

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This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars’ tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa’s southernmost mountains, this book grapples with concepts relevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.

Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Social history. --- Archaeology. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Social History. --- African Culture. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Ethnology—Africa.

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This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class divisions. Currencies also occupied key roles in local spiritual, aesthetic and affective practices. Foregrounding these tensions between the global/universalistic and the local/particularistic, the volume shows how this traditional currency system remained in place until the middle of the twentieth century, and how aspects of the system continue to inform monetary practices throughout the region. With case studies covering China, India, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Madagascar and Mauritius from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume explores the central role currencies played in economic exchange as well as in establishing communal bonds, defining state power and expressing religious sentiments.

World history. --- Imperialism. --- Asia-History. --- China-History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of South Asia. --- History of China. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Universal history --- History --- Asia—History. --- China—History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History.

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‘‘In this important, thoroughly researched contribution Reuben Loffman offers a wealth of new insights… No one interested in the history of the Katanga, or for that matter of the Congo, can afford to ignore this path-breaking addition to the extant literature.’’ —Rene Lemarchand, Emeritus Professor, University of Florida, USA ‘‘Drawing on his painstaking local research, Loffman sheds new light on how one Congolese community experienced a tumultuous period of social, political and religious change in a study that will be of lasting value to scholars of Central Africa.’’ —Miles Larmer, Professor of African History, University of Oxford, UK ‘‘By prompting us to rethink patterns of state hegemony and Church-state relations in the Belgian Congo, Loffman demonstrates that even in an age of global history, there is still much to be gained from painstaking monographs informed by a deep understanding of local dynamics and ethno-historical contexts. This is an impressive debut.’’ —Giacomo Macola, Reader in History, University of Kent, UK This book examines the relationship between Catholic missionaries and the colonial administration in southeastern Belgian Congo. It challenges the perception that the Church and the state worked in close association. Instead, using the territory of Kongolo as a case study, the book reconfigures their relationship as one of competitive co-dependency. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories, the book argues that both institutions retained distinct agendas that, while coinciding during certain periods, clashed on many occasions. The study begins by outlining the pre-colonial history of southeastern Congo. The second chapter examines how the Church began its encounters with the peoples in Kongolo and the Tanganyika province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Subsequent chapters highlight how missionaries exerted significant influence over the colonial construction of chieftainship and the politics of Congolese decolonization. The book ends in 1962, with the massacre of a number of Holy Ghost Fathers in an event that signaled the beginning of a more Africanized Church in Kongolo. .

Colonisation. Decolonisation --- History of Congo --- anno 1800-1999 --- Colonisation --- Colonialisme --- Église et État --- Congo --- Congo belge --- État indépendant du Congo --- Imperialism. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Religion—History. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- History of Religion. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism