Timothy Scarnecchia- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at Kent State University
Timothy Scarnecchia
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at Kent State University
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The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and...
Julia Gallagher. Zimbabwe’s International Relations: Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv + 184 pp. Online ISBN: 9781316869529 - Volume 62 Issue 1 - Timothy Scarnecchia
This chapter examines the contours of how African nations and liberation movements encountered and manipulated Cold War interests on the African continent from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. It focuses on three main case studies: the first Congo Crisis during and after the decolonization of the Congo from 1960 to 1965; the competition between t...
As historical interest and scrutiny has grown over the diplomatic history of the Rhodesian crisis from the mid-1970s to independence in 1980, the bulk of historical attention has been focused on the two big conferences in this period, the Geneva talks in October–December 1976, and the Lancaster House talks in September–December 1979. This article e...
The historian Timothy Scarnecchia’s chapter offers a paradigm shift from the conventional narrative of Nkomo as a vacillating and inconsistent anti-colonial revolutionary through a counter-narrative which highlights Nkomo as a confident nationalist diplomat. Scarnecchia posits that less has been written by historians about the extensive diplomatic...
THE SEMIOTICS OF RHODESIANNESS - Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization. By Luise White . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 343. $30.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-226-23519-6). - Volume 58 Issue 1 - TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA
This article examines front line state (FLS) and Nigerian diplomatic support for the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe during the crucial years of war and negotiations that ultimately led to independence for Zimbabwe in 1980. The diplomatic role of Nigeria in the process, particularly during 1978, is explored as a contrast to the role of FLS diplomats fr...
Gleijeses Piero. Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976‒1991. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xiv + 655 pp. Maps and Illustrations. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1469609683. - Volume 58 Issue 2 - Timothy Scarnecchia
Some of the worst atrocities of state violence perpetrated by the Rhodesian state were published and disseminated around the world in 1975 thanks to the Rhodesian Catholic Bishops’ and the Catholic Commission on Justice and Peace’s links to human rights organisations in London. In contrast, when the Zimbabwean state carried out similar atrocities a...
It is difficult to succinctly summarize the diplomatic style of a leader who began his career in the early 1960s and remains influential more than 50 years later. Robert Mugabe’s career does point to a certain predictable pattern of diplomatic behavior that is evident throughout the changing contours of Zimbabwean history. In many ways, this predic...
The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the Congo in 1960–63 is a major chapter in African and Cold War history. The political consequences of the peacekeeping mission, particularly the use of UN troops against Moise Tshombe’s secessionist Katanga Province, reverberated in neighbouring African States as well. The contours of the UN’s role i...
This article examines the role of diplomatic relations during the first stages of the 1983 Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. Based on a preliminary reading of South African Department of Foreign Affairs files for 1983, the article suggests that Cold War relations between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom helped to provide cover for the Zimbabwean National Arm...
There is a conventional wisdom in earlier studies of American Cold War diplomacy with Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) that the United States took a public line of support for British diplomacy toward majority rule while secretly trying to build relations with African nationalists to assure a pro-American majority government should one appear in the im...
Following a comparative model of fascism developed by Robert O. Paxton, this article explores the similarities between a fascist cycle in Italy (1920–1924) and Zimbabwe (2000–2005). The comparison focuses on the following areas: the state's use of paramilitary organisations, or militias, to maintain or regain control; the abuse of legislative and j...
Timothy Scarnecchia Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958. By Elizabeth Schmidt. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005. Elizabeth Schmidt's latest book is a welcome addition to African historiography and in particular among works seeking to recast and question our historical interpretation of...
African Studies Review 48.3 (2005) 216-218
This impressive volume brings together the views of influential Zimbabwean intellectuals as well as less well-known Zimbabwean voices to offer an important and much needed insiders' assessment of the current crisis. Moving beyond the single causation of President Robert Mugabe, the chapters, all written by...
LIBERATION WITHOUT LIBERTY? The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe, II: Nationalism, Democracy and Human Rights. Edited by TERENCE RANGER. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003 (distributed outside Africa by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. 196. No price given (ISBN 1-7792-001-3). - - Volume 46 Issue 3...
Africa Today 50.3 (2004) 150-152
The "rise" of the African middle class portrayed in this book was not so much heroic as it was foreseeable, given the inherently conservative ethos of middle-class politics and values in what has always been a rather conformist society. The more subversive subtext of the story presents the fascinating odyssey of the...
THE END OF EMPIRES The Decolonization of Africa. By David Birmingham.
London: University College
London Press, 1995. Pp. viii+109. £5.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85728-540-9) - - Volume 38 Issue 2 - TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA
This article provides a historical analysis of a unique religious healing community that successfully attracted a strong following for a brief period in the mid‐1950s in and around Salisbury, Rhodesia. The leader of the movement, Mai Chaza, became well‐known as a healer and remains a popular personality in the memories of older persons who particip...
The relationships between specific groups of women and men are explored during a formative period of urban nationalist politics, showing the failure of nationalists to incorporate women's demands, rather than the absence of women's struggles. It is important to view historical events as they occurred within larger processes of class formation and g...
This thesis is primarily concerned with the historical processes of community formation in Salisbury's two oldest African townships. The focus is on housing, a site for the definition of class and gender within African communities and for the intersection of differing approaches to urban life among government officials, business, and labor unions....
