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Author West, Michael O. (Michael Oliver)

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

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 324 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Middle class -- Zimbabwe -- History.
Zimbabwe -- Colonial influence.
Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1890-1965.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0253340853 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253215242 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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