{"product_id":"unpopular-sovereignty-luise-white-9780226235196","title":"Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization","description":"In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire. In \u003ci\u003eUnpopular Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e, Luise White shows that the exception that was Rhodesian independence did not\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003ein fact, make the state that different from new nations elsewhere in Africa: indeed, this history of Rhodesian political practices reveals some of the commonalities of mid-twentieth-century thinking about place and race and how much government should link the two. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e White locates Rhodesia's independence in the era of decolonization in Africa, a time of great intellectual ferment in ideas about race, citizenship, and freedom. She shows that racists and reactionaries were just as concerned with questions of sovereignty and legitimacy as African nationalists were and took special care to design voter qualifications that could preserve their version of legal statecraft. Examining how the Rhodesian state managed its own governance and electoral politics, she casts an oblique and revealing light by which to rethink the narratives of decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luise White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022623519X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226235196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Luise White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46640952705279,"sku":"9780226235196","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87f36117-5336-4b10-ba2d-d2c619750b33.jpg?v=1740670928","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unpopular-sovereignty-luise-white-9780226235196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}