Archival Significance
Published in 1957, the year before the Federation’s political troubles intensified, this history carries a foreword by Garfield Todd, the former Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister whose comparatively liberal politics are noted elsewhere in this Archive’s holdings.
Institutional Context
Published by Longmans of Rhodesia, Salisbury.
Content Summary
Surveys Rhodesian history from colonisation through to the dissolution of the Federation.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of Rhodesian historiography in the late Federation period, and, given its foreword, for tracing Todd’s continued public association with historical and civic publishing.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.