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Article: From Civilization to Segregation: Social Ideals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1934.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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By Carol Summers. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 311. $45.00.)
This book examines the colonial White Rhodesian social discourse on the development of policies towards the indigenous Black population in Southern Rhodesia, which is today Zimbabwe. The author is not interested in narrating the official history of this British colony in southern Africa, which has been done well by other scholars, but is concerned 3 instead with the public debate that reflects the "perception, interpretations, subjective knowledge and choices" among settlers, missionaries, and administrative personnel of the colony (8). The early violence which was perpetrated against ...