The collapse of Rhodesia population demographics and the politics of race - Brownell, Josiah (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index
In the years leading up to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, its small and transient white population was balanced precariously atop a large and fast-growing African population. This unstable political demography was set against the backdrop of continent-wide decolonisation and a parallel rise in African nationalism within Rhodesia. "The Collapse of Rhodesia" provides a controversial reexamination of the final decades of white minority rule