The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960-1980

• Main Authors: de Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), McNamara, Robert (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Imperialism.; World politics.; African History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Political History.

This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response. From 1961 to 1974, Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa collaborated in the attempt to preserve wh...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART I. Whites States of Emergency
• Chapter 2. Defying the Wind of Change
• Chapter 3. Rhodesia: Rise of the Rebel State
• Chapter 4. Portuguese Africa: Rebellion and Resilience
• PART II The Rise and Fall of an Unholy Alliance
• Chapter 5. Building the White Redoubt
• Chapter 6. Brothers-in-Arms: ALCORA in Action
• Chapter 7. First to Fall: Portugal from Coup to Revolution
• PART III Towards a Constellation of One
• Chapter 8. Decolonization and Détente in Southern Africa: Mozambique and Rhodesia, 1974-1975
• Chapter 9. Debacle and Détente Redux: South Africa in Angola and Rhodesia, 1975-1977
• Chapter 10. P.W. Botha, Total Strategy, and the life and death of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
• Chapter 11. Conclusion.