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AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT - Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930–64. By Lawrence J. Butler. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii+425. £60 (isbn978-0-230-55526-6).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

JAN-BART GEWALD
JAN-BART GEWALD
Affiliation:
African Studies Centre, Leiden
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Zambiaeconomicindustriallabourmining
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Book Review
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The Journal of African History , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , November 2008 , pp. 489 - 491
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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References

1 A. D. Roberts, ‘Notes towards a financial history of copper mining in Northern Rhodesia’, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 16 (1982), 347–59. As regards labour histories, see Francis L. Coleman, The Northern Rhodesia Copperbelt 1899–1962; Technological Development up to the End of the Central African Federation (Manchester, 1971), and Elena L. Berger, Labour, Race, and Colonial Rule; The Copperbelt from 1924 to Independence (London, 1974).

2 James Ferguson, Expectations of Modernity; Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Berkeley, 1999).