Titlebook: Bridging the Zambesi; A Colonial Folly Landeg White Book 1993 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993 Africa.co

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Workers of the World,Railway line between York and Edinburgh saw in those days little more of the city than the thirty acres of sidings, yards, assembly shops and giant cranes of the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company before steaming into the dark cavern of Darlington station. The city centre was a mile away across a wide valley.

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Managing Biosecurity Across Bordersnd Angola meet, would be taken to see a small stream on Kalene Hill. It looks supremely insignificant, not least to local villagers, except that with colonialism’s passion for labelling and measuring people and things it had been named the source of the mighty Zambesi River. The stream flows west an

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Overview: In 1935, a bridge was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa. 51 years later, it was blown up by anti-government forces. This book brings together politics, diplomacy, economics, labour history and technology to show how this engineering feat was a disaster of colonial planning.978-1-349-12365-0

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