West, Michael O.

The rise of an African middle class colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 / [electronic resource] : Michael O. West. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. - xv, 324 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.

Running against the wind : African social mobility and identity in a settler colonial society -- Courting "Miss Education" : the love affair with social mobility -- The quest for bourgeois domesticity : on homemakers and households -- The best of all homes : housing and security of tenure -- A new beginning : the roots of African politics, 1914-1933 -- Found and lost : toward an African political consensus, 1934-1948 -- Back toward the beginning : the pursuit of racial partnership, 1949-1958 -- An aborted coronation : in search of the political kingdom, 1955-1965.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Middle class--History.--Zimbabwe


Zimbabwe--Colonial influence.
Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1890-1965.


Electronic books.

HT690.Z55 / W46 2002

305.5/5/096891