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Author:   J. Tischler
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.219kg
ISBN:  

9781137268761

ISBN 10:   113726876
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   25 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: PLANNING KARIBA 1. Global High Modernism and the Kariba Dam Scheme 2. 'Scientific' Decision-Making? 3. Developing a Powerful White Nation  4. Negotiating Development: the Kariba Loan Talks PART II: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESETTLEMENT 5. African Development and the Resettlement Question 6. A Dam Against the 'Primitive': White Discourse about the Gwembe Tonga 7. Renegotiating African Development: the Resettlement in Northern Rhodesia 8. The 'Efficiency' of Settler Rule: the Resettlement in Southern Rhodesia PART III: INTERVENING IN THE KARIBA DAM PROJECT 9. In the Middle of Development: Hezekiah Habanyama and the Gwembe Tonga Native Authority 10. Struggling with Development: the Perspectives of the Gwembe Tonga 11. A Black Dam for the People: Nationalist and Left-wing Critiques PART IV: BUILDING THE KARIBA DAM 12. A Microcosm of the Modern Nation: Controlling the Kariba Construction Site 13. Coping, Protesting, Improving their Lives: Kariba's Workers PART V: THE END OF JOINT DEVELOPMENT: PLANNING LAKE KARIBA Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Julia Tischler is a Researcher in African History at the International Research Center 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History' at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany. Her PhD dissertation, on which her monograph is based, received the Hedwig-Hintze-Prize for the best doctoral thesis in History, awarded every two years by the German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands).

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