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Settler State, Guerrilla War and Rural Underdevelopment in Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Michael Bratton
Michael Bratton*
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Michigan State University
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[The designation “Rhodesia” is used to distinguish the colonial state, with which this article is concerned, from the future decolonized “Zimbabwe”. Readers interested in a less theoretical but more closely documented version of the arguments presented in this paper, plus analysis of the options and prospects for the administration of rural development in Zimbabwe, are referred to Beyond Community Development: The Political Economy of Rural Administration in Zimbabwe (London, Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1978, 64 pp.) by the same author.]

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 9 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1979 , pp. 56 - 62
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979 

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36. Ibid.: the D.C. and his staff were made directly responsible for collection of rates and taxes and their arms were strengthened by the Emergency Powers (Collection of Amenities Debts) Regulations which authorized the seizure of cash or property from non-compliant peasants.