- Title Pages
- The Oxford History of the British Empire
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The British Empire in the Edwardian Era
- 3 A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics
- 4 The Metropolitan Economics of Empire
- 5 The British Empire and the Great War, 1914–1918
- 6 Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1900–1948
- 7 Migrants and Settlers
- 8 Critics of Empire in Britain
- 9 The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain
- 10 Colonial Rule
- 11 Bureaucracy and ‘Trusteeship’ in the Colonial Empire
- 12 ‘Deceptive Might’: Imperial Defence and Security, 1900–1968
- 13 The Second World War
- 14 The Dissolution of the British Empire
- 15 Imperialism and After: The Economy of the Empire on the Periphery
- 16 Gender in the British Empire
- 17 The British Empire and the Muslim World
- 18 India
- 19 Ceylon
- 20 Imperialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia
- 21 Britain’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
- 22 West Africa
- 23 East Africa
- 24 Southern Africa
- 25 Canada, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Empire
- 26 The British Caribbean from Demobilization to Constitutional Decolonization
- 27 Latin America
- 28 China
- 29 Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
- 30 Commonwealth Legacy
- 31 Epilogue
- Chronology
- Index
Southern Africa
Southern Africa
- Chapter:
- (p.545) 24 Southern Africa
- Source:
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century
- Author(s):
SHULA MARKS
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
For much of the 20th century, British policies in southern Africa have been dominated by calculations about South Africa. The Union, later Republic, of South Africa has occupied a unique position in British Imperial strategy and imagination. Interconnected networks of City, Empire, and academe gave South Africa its importance to the advocates of Commonwealth at least until 1945. With the independence of Zambia, Malawi, and the High Commission Territories, the first phase of African decolonization in southern Africa was complete. By the late 1960s all non-independent African countries were in settler-dominated southern Africa, and the following decade saw escalating wars of liberation in Mozambique and Angola, followed by Namibia and Zimbabwe. Despite their political independence, the new southern African states remained embedded in a regional economy consisting of enclaves of high capital investment and rural areas of increasing impoverishment.
Keywords: British policies, Commonwealth, decolonization, economy, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi
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- Title Pages
- The Oxford History of the British Empire
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The British Empire in the Edwardian Era
- 3 A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics
- 4 The Metropolitan Economics of Empire
- 5 The British Empire and the Great War, 1914–1918
- 6 Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1900–1948
- 7 Migrants and Settlers
- 8 Critics of Empire in Britain
- 9 The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain
- 10 Colonial Rule
- 11 Bureaucracy and ‘Trusteeship’ in the Colonial Empire
- 12 ‘Deceptive Might’: Imperial Defence and Security, 1900–1968
- 13 The Second World War
- 14 The Dissolution of the British Empire
- 15 Imperialism and After: The Economy of the Empire on the Periphery
- 16 Gender in the British Empire
- 17 The British Empire and the Muslim World
- 18 India
- 19 Ceylon
- 20 Imperialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia
- 21 Britain’s Informal Empire in the Middle East
- 22 West Africa
- 23 East Africa
- 24 Southern Africa
- 25 Canada, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Empire
- 26 The British Caribbean from Demobilization to Constitutional Decolonization
- 27 Latin America
- 28 China
- 29 Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
- 30 Commonwealth Legacy
- 31 Epilogue
- Chronology
- Index
