Elizabeth Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 81302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8056-1534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
White Minority Rule in Rhodesia Reexamined
In 1965, white minority-ruled Rhodesia, a settler colony in Southern Africa, declared independence from the United Kingdom in order to escape the imposition of majority rule. Although Western powers publicly condemned Rhodesia’s illegal secession, declassified government documents reveal that they also enabled the continuation of white rule by violating United Nations sanctions and shielding the regime from the use of force. These events offer im…
Designing a Legal Framework to Encourage Nonprofit Success
Section 501(c)(3) organizations in the United States work within a legal framework that was developed more than 100 years ago and that has not changed significantly in over 50 years. These rules are mostly designed to prevent and stop misuse of charitable funds Although that’s a laudable goal, those who write these rules seem to have lost sight of an equally important goal – to ensure that nonprofit leaders have rules that can help their organiza…
Introduction
Transatlantic Winds of Change
Marco Wyss. Postcolonial Security
In this rich, thoroughly researched account, Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa’s Cold War, Marco Wyss compares French and British approaches to African decolonization during the period 1958 to 1966. After World War II, France and the United Kingdom—the preeminent colonial powers—used their resource-rich colonies to rebuild their war-ravaged economies and to secure once again their status in the world arena. They were challen…
The Power of Voice
The Northern Ireland peace process has been long and tumultuous, yet 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement, peace has not become a reality for many Northern Irish citizens. For those who have been excluded from the state and the institution-led peace process, grassroots methods of peacebuilding are needed to create an everyday peace that is owned by and includes all Northern Irish citizens. A narrative approach to peacebuilding is one that add…
Thomas Sankara
Brian J. Peterson's Thomas Sankara is a poignant and compelling account of one of postcolonial Africa's most innovative and progressive leaders, who was assassinated in a home-grown military coup assisted by foreign powers. Through meticulous oral and archival research, Peterson reconstructs the complex historical figure who was both idolized and hated, erased from official histories, and idealized in popular collective memory—and places him in t…
The unsettled Atlantic World of James Pinnock
Using the 1758–1794 diary of James Pinnock, an Anglo-Jamaican lawyer, we can examine the Pinnock houseful: himself, his wife and daughters, enslaved domestic servants, and enslaved plantation laborers. I argue that the Atlantic World offered unique opportunities for physical, social, and occupational mobility of both white AND black members of the colonial houseful. James had privileged mobility via his race and profession, evidenced in his movem…
African interventions
This book seeks to explain the reasons behind interstate military intervention in Africa from 1960 to the present. It defines military interventions as ‘any purposeful dispatch of national military forces into another sovereign country ... to pursue political, economic, strategic, territorial, or humanitarian objectives’ (pp. 7–8). Excluded here are a number of actions included in other studies, such as equipment transport, intelligence gathering…
France's Wars in Chad
Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Using a single material object, a portrait of a woman wearing an English silk damask gown in a North American colony, Zara Anishanslin lays out four biographical narratives to illustrate a ‘kind of additional empire’ within the British Atlantic World, showing how material objects left behind are evidence of a visual sensus communis (p. 11). The portrait reveals many things: the subject’s status as a ‘colonial woman of quality’ (p. 7); the role of…
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
A historical investigation of a grass-roots political movement in the former German colony of Togo, this book constitutes an important contribution to scholarship that re-evaluates post-Second World War African nationalism. Rejecting retrospective analyses that take as a given post-colonial nation-states established within old colonial boundaries, Kate Skinner’s monograph joins others that consider alternative political projects and formations, m…
Popular Resistance and Anticolonial Mobilization
This chapter focuses on the Second World War and its impact on the French West African territory of Guinea (Figure 23.1), where the war effort and experiences of war inspired the anticolonial agitation that ultimately led to Guinea's independence in 1958. These events played out in the context of a divided France. Following Germany's invasion of France in May 1940 and its victory on the battlefield in June, three-fifths of France was occupied by …
Mohamed Saliou Camara. Political History of Guinea since World War Two
This 500-page volume on the political history of Guinea explores the ideas and actions of political elites and the institutions they established in the decades after World War II. Focusing on a country that has received relatively little attention outside the Francophone world, the study is the first of its kind in English—reminiscent of Sidiki Kobélé Keita's two-volume tome, Le P.D.G.: Artisan de l'indépendance nationale en Guinée (1947–1958) (1…
Rethinking the African Past
A new book by Frederick Cooper seeks to change our understanding both of Africa's role in the global economy over the centuries and of how the independent nation-state replaced colonial rule
Africa
This chapter examines the impact of the Cold War on Africa. It explains that while Africa is the least-known Cold War battleground, the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba became embroiled in the internal affairs of countless African countries. The chapter analyzes the ideologies, practices, and interests of these main external actors and describes the four major arenas of conflict that are representative of broad trends in Cold War …
Foreign Intervention in Africa
Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African …
Development in Africa
In September 1958, the US African Studies Association (ASA) held its first annual meeting in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Fifty years later, when the ASA reconvened in Chicago to celeb
Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa
In a 1958 constitutional referendum, Guinea was the only French territory to reject continued colonial subordination in favor of immediate independence. Why did Guinea alone reject the constitution that laid the foundations for France's Fifth Republic? What factors stimulated political parties in other territories to accept the prolongation of French tutelage, even as activists elsewhere on the continent were agitating for independence? Focusing …
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958
In September 1958, claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, was the only territory to vote No. Orchestrating the No vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Althou…
Cold War in Guinea
When the Cold War broke out in Western Europe at the end of the Second World War, France was a key battleground. Its Cold War choices played out in the empire as well as in the métropole . After communist party ministers were ousted from the tripartite government in 1947, repression against communists and their associates intensified – both in the Republic and overseas. In French sub-Saharan Africa, the primary victims of this repression were mem…
Top Down or Bottom Up? Nationalist Mobilization Reconsidered, with Special Reference to Guinea (French West Africa)
Home Alone
The Stone Virgins
Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nea…
Emergent Masculinities
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958
In September 1958, claimed its independence, rejecting a constitution that would have relegated it to junior partnership in the French Community. In all the French empire, was the only territory to vote No. Orchestrating the No vote was the Guinean branch of the Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA), an alliance of political parties with affiliates in French West and Equatorial Africa and the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. Althou…
Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa
In a 1958 constitutional referendum, Guinea was the only French territory to reject continued colonial subordination in favor of immediate independence. Why did Guinea alone reject the constitution that laid the foundations for France's Fifth Republic? What factors stimulated political parties in other territories to accept the prolongation of French tutelage, even as activists elsewhere on the continent were agitating for independence? Focusing …
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe
Negotiated spaces and contested terrain
During the early years of European occupation in Southern Rhodesia, people on the margins of African society took advantage of the erosion of indigenous authority structures. Women, in particular, challenged male control over their mobility, sexuality, and productive and reproductive capacities. Initially, a degree of female 'emancipation' was encouraged by European missionaries and the colonial state, who considered such customs as child‐pledgin…
Blood from Your Children
Cold War in Guinea
When the Cold War broke out in Western Europe at the end of the Second World War, France was a key battleground. Its Cold War choices played out in the empire as well as in the métropole . After communist party ministers were ousted from the tripartite government in 1947, repression against communists and their associates intensified – both in the Republic and overseas. In French sub-Saharan Africa, the primary victims of this repression were mem…
This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad
Peasants, Traders, and Wives
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Decoding Corporate Camouflage
When Sanctions Worked
IN JANUARY 1966 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised African states at the Commonwealth Summit in Lagos that recently imposed sanctions would bring down the minority Rhodesian regime in 'weeks, not months'.1 This rash prediction later became established as an implicit criterion showing the failure of sanctions. Rhodesia's survival, years later, was ipso facto proof, for popular opinion as well as for many scholars, that 'sanctions don't …
African interventions
This book seeks to explain the reasons behind interstate military intervention in Africa from 1960 to the present. It defines military interventions as ‘any purposeful dispatch of national military forces into another sovereign country ... to pursue political, economic, strategic, territorial, or humanitarian objectives’ (pp. 7–8). Excluded here are a number of actions included in other studies, such as equipment transport, intelligence gathering…
Development in Africa
In September 1958, the US African Studies Association (ASA) held its first annual meeting in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Fifty years later, when the ASA reconvened in Chicago to celeb
African Women
Introduction
Emergent Masculinities
Peasants, Traders, and Wives
Education and Government Control in Zimbabwe
Preface The Introduction of Western Education in Zimbabwe: The Search for a Strategy of Control Circumstances Surrounding the Naming of Commissions: The Beginning of Government Control The Findings of the Commissions: The Structure of Government Control The Recommendations of the Commissions: The Purpose of Government Control Implementing the Recommendations of the Commissions: The Effect of Government Control Case Study in Conflict Between the G…
Farmers, Hunters, and Gold-Washers
Over the course of the past two decades, a number of studies have shown that during the colonial period, significant changes occurred in the gender division of labor in various African societies.1 These changes had differential effects, not only on men and women, but among women, varying according to region, socioeconomic strata, marital arrangement, household composition, and historical period. In some areas, women played a major role in the cas…
Decoding Corporate Camouflage
One Step in the Wrong Direction
No abstract
The Crisis in South Africa
Books reviewed
J. Parson, Botswana: Liberal Democracy and the Labor Reserve in Southern Africa (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press and London: Gower, 1984). Pp. 145. £11.50. R. M. K. Silitshena, Intra‐Rural Migration and Settlement Changes in Botswana (Leiden: African Studies Centre, 1983). Pp. 230. Df1.10. K. Shillington (comp.), Essays on the History of Botswana: a bibliography of history research essays presented in part fulfilment of the B.A. degree of the U…
The Scope for Sanctions
Journal Article The Scope for Sanctions: Economic Measures Against South Africa Get access The Scope for Sanctions: Economic Measures Against South Africa, by Richard Moorsom. Catholic Institute for International Relations, London, 1986. 102 pp. £3.95 paperback. ISBN 0 946848 66 1. ELIZABETH SCHMIDT ELIZABETH SCHMIDT University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue …
Farmers, Hunters, and Gold-Washers
Over the course of the past two decades, a number of studies have shown that during the colonial period, significant changes occurred in the gender division of labor in various African societies.1 These changes had differential effects, not only on men and women, but among women, varying according to region, socioeconomic strata, marital arrangement, household composition, and historical period. In some areas, women played a major role in the cas…
When Sanctions Worked
IN JANUARY 1966 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson promised African states at the Commonwealth Summit in Lagos that recently imposed sanctions would bring down the minority Rhodesian regime in 'weeks, not months'.1 This rash prediction later became established as an implicit criterion showing the failure of sanctions. Rhodesia's survival, years later, was ipso facto proof, for popular opinion as well as for many scholars, that 'sanctions don't …
The Battlefronts of Southern Africa
Education and Government Control in Zimbabwe
Preface The Introduction of Western Education in Zimbabwe: The Search for a Strategy of Control Circumstances Surrounding the Naming of Commissions: The Beginning of Government Control The Findings of the Commissions: The Structure of Government Control The Recommendations of the Commissions: The Purpose of Government Control Implementing the Recommendations of the Commissions: The Effect of Government Control Case Study in Conflict Between the G…
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Negotiated spaces and contested terrain
During the early years of European occupation in Southern Rhodesia, people on the margins of African society took advantage of the erosion of indigenous authority structures. Women, in particular, challenged male control over their mobility, sexuality, and productive and reproductive capacities. Initially, a degree of female 'emancipation' was encouraged by European missionaries and the colonial state, who considered such customs as child‐pledgin…
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe
The Comforts of Home
Lessons of Struggle
Peasants, Traders, and Wives
Threads of Solidarity
Peasants, Traders, and Wives
Tears of the Dead
This social biography illuminates 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe from the colonial period to the present. At the heart of the book are the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family, the family of Lupondo. Lupondo's family are active agents throughout the book, marshalling their own concepts of character, family morality and public authority to contend with the colonial world and it…
Peasants, Traders, and Wives
Zimbabwe and the New Elite
Allies in Adversity
Are We Not Also Men? The Samkange Family & African Politics in Zimbabwe 1920-64
African Women
On the Frontline
Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe
Political science (44 works) · African history and culture studies (29 works) · Law (28 works) · Sociology (28 works) · History (27 works) · Politics (21 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · History (15 works)