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Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59693-2

ISBN: 978-1-137-59691-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Mar 23, 2017

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Introduction: Toward a Transcolonial History of Victoria Falls

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 1 –17

[This study places Victoria Falls as a central focus of analysis, which allows for a close examination of the transcolonial process of British expansion. Perhaps better than any other sub-Saharan landscape feature, Victoria Falls serves as a clear example of why colonial African history cannot be...
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“A Cataract on the Zambezi”: The Waterfalls in Precolonial Context

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 19 –58

[When David Livingstone “discovered” Victoria Falls in 1855, he was part of a larger British mission to explore the parts of Africa still unknown to Europeans. British explorers were responsible for bringing Africa into the British public’s imagination and helped create a discourse about the...
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Lewanika’s Scramble for Africa: Barotseland and the British South Africa Company

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 59 –103

[This chapter explores Lozi chief Lewanika’s motivations for working with the British and his own imagined potential as a partner in British colonial expansion. As will be evident, Lewanika capitalized on the increased British traffic around Victoria Falls and north into the Upper Zambezi Valley...
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Staking Their Claim: White Settlement at Victoria Falls

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 105 –141

[The five years before and after the turn of the twentieth century marked a period of excitement and trepidation for Africans and Europeans living in newly formed North Western Rhodesia. Expectations ran high as people imagined the possibilities of life in the colony, but there was also anxiety...
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Performing Europe or Redefining African: The African Social Life of a Colonial Town

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 143 –178

[This chapter turns attention to the African laborers living in Livingstone, close to Victoria Falls. Just as white entrepreneurs, colonial administrators, and Lewanika and Lozi elite developed their own agendas for Victoria Falls and North Western Rhodesia, so too did African laborers living...
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“What is the Trouble?”: Dispute and Discontent in North Western Rhodesia

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 179 –220

[This chapter is shaped by the premise that North Western Rhodesia epitomized the concept of a “messy” colonization process. It addresses the question of how people experienced colonialism and the expectations by the various subjects of the state. In this sense, it is important to consider how...
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‘Of More Value to South Africa than all the Diamonds Ever Found or Dreamed:’ Victoria Falls and the Hydroelectric Power Scheme

Arrington-Sirois, Andrea L.

Pages: 221 –258

[From the beginning of its colonial history, North Western Rhodesia was in many ways envisioned to serve as a territory that met the needs of her southern colonial sisters. The policies used to establish the British South Africa Company’s (BSACo) colonial authority created what some white...

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