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The Past Is Another Country Rhodesia UDI to Zimbabwe
Author: Martin Meredith
Publisher: Pan Books
Edition: Revised & Extended Edition 1980
ISBN: 0 330 26268 8
Language: English
Condition: Good. Age related discolouration and previous owners name otherwise a clean copy with tight binding
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 430. Text with map
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This book describes the main political events in Rhodesia during 1965-80 and provides background information on the causes of the mass exodus of refugees during that period. After a brief historical review, the background to Rhodesia's 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence' (UDI) is given. The book focuses on the numerous international negotiations which attempted to achieve majority rule in the country: the Tiger Talks (1966); the Fearless Talks (1968); the Pearce Commission (1972); the Kissinger Proposals (1976); the Geneva Conference (1976); the Anglo-American Initiative (1977); the Salisbury Agreement (1978) which lead to the establishment of 'Zimbabwe-Rhodesia'; and the Lancaster House Conference (1979). It concludes with the 1980 elections and the victory of Robert Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The growth, major personalities and policies of the liberation movements are also described.
Martin Meredith has written the political obituary of UDI. The Past is Another Country is a meticulous and authoritative account of 15 years of blunderingly tortuous efforts to bring Rhodesia to legal independence. It is a genuinely tragic story chronicled with the critical detachment of a historian and the readability of a journalist. Meredith shows the skilful manoeuvring by which Ian Smith retained the support of the white population whilst keeping the country economically afloat and holding at bay a succession of politicians and possible mediators from Harold Wilson to Henry Kissinger, from 'Tiny' Rowland to Andrew Young. But it was Smith's intransigence in negotiation that galvanized the black population, despite the internal divisions among its leaders, into warfare. Central to this book is the account of how the guerilla movement developed after years of failure and incompetence into the force which turned Rhodesia into Zimbabwe.
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