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Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian copperbelt. /James Ferguson

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa, 57Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press , 2007.Description: xvii, 326 Pages ;23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520217027
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.096894 FER
Summary: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated. This title explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline.
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Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated. This title explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline.

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