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Title:Accommodating Imperialism: The Compromise of the Settler State in Southern Rhodesia, 1923-1929
Author:Phimister, Ian R.ISNI
Year:1984
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:25
Issue:3
Pages:279-294
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:colonists
Europeans
imperialism
economic history
History and Exploration
colonialism
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/181693
Abstract:Although Southern Rhodesia's settler minority won responsible government from Britain in 1923, it was on terms circumscribed by the interests of metropolitan accumulation. As the dependent partner, Southern Rhodesia was obliged to accept constitutional provisions seeking to guard against initiatives which might disturb that process. Consequently, the settler state found itself hamstrung when it tried to gain some say over how the railway system operated. It was even less successful when it turned its attention to base mineral mining, where a handful of large companies did pretty much as they pleased. Efforts to find overseas markets for cattle and tobacco were also unsatisfactory. Neither the state nor settler producers could obtain the terms they wanted. Accumulation proceeded on terrain designed and dominated by imperialism. Notes.
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