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Modern Industry and the African

An Enquiry into the Effect of the Copper Mines of Central Africa upon Native Society and the Work of the Christian Missions
By:J. Merle Davis
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367112509
eText ISBN:9780429655401
Edition:1
Copyright:1967
Format:Reflowable

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Originally published in 1933, at the time of its publication, Modern Industry and the African represented a progressive, essentially liberal approach to the development of the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia and the response thereto of the Christian Church. It expressed the authors' very real fears that urbanization would irreparably damage the foundations of indigenous life and demonstrated their implicit faith in the virtues of a past 'golden age' of rural stability. In many respects the study was a landmark, beginning a new trend of investigation into 'sociological' aspects of African administration.