This book brings together ways of understanding the multiple and complex dimensions of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 and highlights its importance to wider African and World history.
Hugh Pattenden is a Visiting Academic at the Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Southampton, an IHR Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research on UDI has appeared in a range of journals, including the International History Review, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and War in History.
Carl P. Watts is an Associate Professor of National Security Studies at Air University, Global College of Professional Military Education, USA, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research on UDI has been published in many journals and he is also the author of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence: An International History (2012).
