Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980
Ninety years of Rhodesia, from Cecil Rhodes to the end, without a thesis to sell.
Peter Baxter covers the country from the occupation of 1890 through federation, the unilateral declaration of independence, the bush war, and the transition to Zimbabwe in 1980. Its value is completeness rather than argument: most books on Rhodesia are built around a single narrative, and this one is content to set out at length what happened.
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Tyler Cowen
Peter Baxter, Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980. The most complete history of the country I have been able to find. Many of the other books contain a few dominant, non-false narratives, but one gets tired of that? I say LLMs come especially in handy for learning this history.
Source · October 2025
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