TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA is Professor of History at Kent State University, USA.

[An] original and intriguing book. [.] Scarnecchia skilfully moves his analysis between the local, national and international dimensions of the nationalist struggle in order to show how the deepening fault lines of class, gender and nation undermined the coherence of the nationalist movement and fuelled a politics of intimidation. In doing so he effectively undermines Zimbabwe's nationalist historiography of anticolonial triumph, and adds a valuable contribution to a growing revisionist historiography of African nationalism that seeks new explanations for the pernicious tendencies of African regimes.

• Charles Mzingeli's Leadership and Imperial Working-Class CitizenshipTownship Protest PoliticsResistance to the Urban Areas Act and Women's Political InfluenceChanging Tactics: Youth League Politics and the End of AccommodationThe Early Sixties: Violent Protest and "Sellout" PoliticsThe "Imperialist Stooge" and New Levels of "Sellout" Political Violence

TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA is Professor of History at Kent State University, USA.

[An] original and intriguing book. [.] Scarnecchia skilfully moves his analysis between the local, national and international dimensions of the nationalist struggle in order to show how the deepening fault lines of class, gender and nation undermined the coherence of the nationalist movement and fuelled a politics of intimidation. In doing so he effectively undermines Zimbabwe's nationalist historiography of anticolonial triumph, and adds a valuable contribution to a growing revisionist historiography of African nationalism that seeks new explanations for the pernicious tendencies of African regimes.

• Charles Mzingeli's Leadership and Imperial Working-Class CitizenshipTownship Protest PoliticsResistance to the Urban Areas Act and Women's Political InfluenceChanging Tactics: Youth League Politics and the End of AccommodationThe Early Sixties: Violent Protest and "Sellout" PoliticsThe "Imperialist Stooge" and New Levels of "Sellout" Political Violence

TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA is Professor of History at Kent State University, USA.

[An] original and intriguing book. [.] Scarnecchia skilfully moves his analysis between the local, national and international dimensions of the nationalist struggle in order to show how the deepening fault lines of class, gender and nation undermined the coherence of the nationalist movement and fuelled a politics of intimidation. In doing so he effectively undermines Zimbabwe's nationalist historiography of anticolonial triumph, and adds a valuable contribution to a growing revisionist historiography of African nationalism that seeks new explanations for the pernicious tendencies of African regimes.

• Charles Mzingeli's Leadership and Imperial Working-Class CitizenshipTownship Protest PoliticsResistance to the Urban Areas Act and Women's Political InfluenceChanging Tactics: Youth League Politics and the End of AccommodationThe Early Sixties: Violent Protest and "Sellout" PoliticsThe "Imperialist Stooge" and New Levels of "Sellout" Political Violence