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The rise of an African middle class [electronic resource] : colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 / Michael O. West.

By: West, Michael O. (Michael Oliver).
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002Description: xv, 324 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Middle class -- Zimbabwe -- History | Zimbabwe -- Colonial influence | Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1890-1965Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.5/5/096891 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.