Society in Zimbabwes Liberation War - Hardcover

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9780435074111: Society in Zimbabwes Liberation War

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0435074113 ISBN 13: 9780435074111

Publisher: Heinemann, 1996

A companion volume to "Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War, " this collection focuses on the beliefs, ideas, and experiences of the Zimbabwean people during and after the war, including the ideas used by whites to justify brutality, and the civilian experiences at the hands of guerrillas and the Fifth Brigade the role of African religion and Christianity in the struggle, and efforts to educate people for a new society postwar political change and the evolution of new ideas.

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Review:

These volumes provide signposts for researchers to begin to ask new questions about the events of the wars. - Diane Jeater in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY These two volumes represent the most important critical collection of work on the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe. The range of the studies provides an impressive overview of the complex responses of various social forces to the liberation war... - Brian Raftopoulos in JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES The impressive number and quality of these local level studies, many part of larger works, add to existing conflicting and consensual claims about the war and its aftermath, making a review of a now sizeable literature timely. - Norma Kriger in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY Like Volume I, this volume is a milestone in recording the history of the liberation war...The revelation of the horrors is a part of the balm that heals the wounds of both the victim and the perpetrator. They set directions for future writers on the painful genesis of Zimbabwe. - Charles Pfukwa in the INDEPENDENT WEEKENDER

About the Author:

TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Zimbabwe.

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