X-Post: MiWSR: Whitaker on Melson, "Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence"
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A review of Charles D. Melson, Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence, by Blake Whitaker, Charlottesville, VA.
James P. Holoka, editor
Brennan on Perman, 'Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life'
Tony Perman.
Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Illustrations. 280 pp.
$30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08517-8; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04325-3. 
Linzy on Musoni, 'Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa'
Francis Musoni. Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 218 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04715-1; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-04714-4.
Reviewed by Benjamin Linzy (Marquette University) Published on H-Africa (July, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Haefner on Michel, 'The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy toward Rhodesia during the UDI Era, 1965-1979'
Eddie Michel. The White House and White Africa: Presidential Policy toward Rhodesia during the UDI Era, 1965-1979. New York: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 256 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-31999-8.
Reviewed by Julianne H. Haefner (Central Michigan University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Kenrick on Charumbira, 'Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe'
Ruramisai Charumbira. Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. xvii + 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3822-6.
Reviewed by David Kenrick (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2016) Commissioned by Sarah Mak
Onslow on White, 'Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization'
Luise White. Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 368 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-23505-9; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-23519-6.
Reviewed by Sue Onslow (University of London) Published on H-Diplo (December, 2015) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Rich on Ranger, 'Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960' and Scarnecchia, 'The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964'
Terence Ranger. Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893-1960. Woodbridge: James Currey, 2010. 261 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84701-020-9.Timothy Scarnecchia. The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964.
Kirkwood on Stapleton, 'African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80'
Timothy Stapleton. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011. xii + 313 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-380-5.
Reviewed by Patrick M. Kirkwood (Central Michigan University) Published on H-Empire (May, 2012) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
