The rise of an African middle class : colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 /
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| Author / Creator: | West, Michael O. (Michael Oliver) |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. |
| Description: | xv, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4720620 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Colonial and Postcolonial Place Names
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Social Construction of the African Middle Class
- 1. Running Against the Wind: African Social Mobility and Identity in a Settler Colonial Society
- 2. Courting "Miss Education": The Love Affair with Social Mobility
- 3. The Quest for Bourgeois Domesticity: On Homemakers and Households
- 4. The Best of All Homes: Housing and Security of Tenure
- Part 2. The Political Construction of the African Middle Class
- 5. A New Beginning: The Roots of African Politics, 1914-1933
- 6. Found and Lost: Toward an African Political Consensus, 1934-1948
- 7. Back Toward the Beginning: The Pursuit of Racial Partnership, 1949-1958
- 8. An Aborted Coronation: In Search of the Political Kingdom, 1955-1965
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
