Description
A unique comparative study between four secessionist states in postcolonial Africa, and their struggles to obtain sovereign recognition.
About the Author
Josiah Brownell is Associate Professor of History in the Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at the Pratt Institute in New York. He has written extensively on nationalism, decolonization, and white settlerism in Southern Africa, and is the author of The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race (2010).
Reviews
'Josiah Brownell traces the making of four unrecognised state regimes - Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei and Bophuthatswana - from their African locales to the United Nations and Wall Street, showing how high finance, diplomatic recognition, tourism and postage stamps were just some of the elements used to assert and make their statehood visible at a time of profound political change. This important study, in taking seriously both the performative and substantive expressions of reactionary statehood, brilliantly writes their separate and linked histories into the wider story of African decolonization.' Miles Larmer, University of Oxford
Book Information
ISBN 9781108959971
Author Josiah Brownell
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 17mm