A Most Promising Weed
A Most Promising Weed

Author: Steven C. Rubert

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0896802035

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Thousands of African men, women, and children worked on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Contrary to some commonly held notions, these people were not mere bystanders as European capitalism penetrated into Zimbabwe, but helped to shape the work and the living conditions they encountered as they entered wage employment. Steven Rubert's fine study draws on a rich variety of sources to illuminate the lives of these workers. The central focus of the study is the organization of workers' compounds, the social relationships there, and the labor of women and children, paid and unpaid. Rubert's findings indicate the beginnings of a moral economy on the tobacco farms prior to 1945.

Native Policy in Southern Africa
Native Policy in Southern Africa

Author: Ifor L. Evans

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1107455790

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Originally published in 1934, this book provides an overview of the history of European policy in Southern Africa with regards to the native populations. Evans details, with a sympathy for native Africans not common among his contemporaries, the changing attitudes of settlers to native inhabitants in what is now Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the colonial history of Southern Africa.

Gendered Encounters
Gendered Encounters

Author: Maria Grosz-Ngate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1136670513

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This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.