Edmund James Yorke
Biographic Data
| ID | 9321047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund James Yorke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund James |
| FAMILY NAME | Yorke |
| SIGNATURE | YORKE E J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Advent of a ‘White Man’s War’
As in neighbouring colonial African states, the survival of the ruling white minority in Northern Rhodesia rested upon a complex web of interrelationships between governors and governed. The hub of this network of social relationships was a distinct hierarchy of obedience. African subordination and deference depended upon their own perceptions of the continued credibility of white hegemony. These keywords were added by machine and not by the auth…
War Labour Recruitment and Mobilisation
During the two decades preceding the outbreak of the First World War, Northern Rhodesia acted as a labour reservoir for a wide variety of internal and external industrial and agricultural interests. There were two major externally-based recruiting agencies. The larger was the Rhodesia Native Labour Bureau (RNLB), which since 1903 had served Southern Rhodesian mines and farms and which also recruited, as a sideline, for those of Northern Rhodesia.…
Reconquest and Reconstruction
In November 1918 a war-weary Livingstone executive received a flood of alarmist reports from Tanganyika District officials concerning the rapid mushrooming of a branch of the Watchtower movement, a movement which, in neighbouring Nyasaland, had already been identified as subversive to colonial authority. 1 Before analysing its causes, the close links between its rise to prominence and the wartime disruption of black society and the colonial syste…
The Nadir of Colonial Power in Northern Rhodesia
On 2 April 1917, a terse telegram informed London Wall of a major insurrection in the Barue region of neighbouring Portuguese East Africa. A crucial half-sentence in the despatch, that the rebellion was ‘probably due to commandeering of natives by Portuguese authorities for military service’, 1 brought home the potentially disastrous political consequences the rebellion might have for the Company’s own tenuous control. 2 A London Wall Director, D…
Pre-War Northern Rhodesia
In 1911 two contemporary observers, both BSAC employees, commenting upon the politico-economic development of the northeast Rhodesian Plateau, were forced to admit to its state of stagnation as a ‘colossal Might-Have-Been [ ... ] of gloomy unproductiveness’. 1 It was a description applicable to other substantial areas of the Territory before the outbreak of the First World War. Moreover, the lack of development reflected very much the region’s an…
Colonial Dependence and African Opportunity
Early African response to war labour demands greatly varied and was by no means wholly negative. Initially, many actually volunteered for war service. The relatively high wage scale provided a clear incentive to enlistment not merely as a means of meeting colonial tribute obligations such as poll tax, but as a means of purchasing ‘luxury’ goods with the surplus cash. 1 Thus, one Ngoni remembered the response of some men in his village: ‘They were…
Crumbling Foundations of the Colonial Edifice
The advent of war in August 1918 greatly magnified the politico-economic role of chiefs and headmen within Northern Rhodesia’s colonial framework. Traditional elites were seen as cheap and convenient intermediaries for the extraction of military food and manpower supplies. It was a role accentuated by the serious wartime shortage of white district staff. Furthermore, from the early wartime perspective of many remaining district officials, chiefs,…
The Strain of Total War
The mass labour and food levies from late 1915 right the way through to 1918 inevitably caused severe disruption to the mainly subsistence-based, agricultural economies which predominated amongst the northeast Plateau population. 1 In respect of war labour demands, to reach any accurate estimate of the critical number of absent males that can be tolerated by any one African village economy is extremely difficult. 2 What is certain, however, is th…
Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War
An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surv
The New South Africa
This cohesive and challenging collection of academic essays represents a radical analysis, indeed re-interpretation, of the political, social and economic events which have occurred within the new Sou
Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War
An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surv
The New South Africa
This cohesive and challenging collection of academic essays represents a radical analysis, indeed re-interpretation, of the political, social and economic events which have occurred within the new Sou
Advent of a ‘White Man’s War’
As in neighbouring colonial African states, the survival of the ruling white minority in Northern Rhodesia rested upon a complex web of interrelationships between governors and governed. The hub of this network of social relationships was a distinct hierarchy of obedience. African subordination and deference depended upon their own perceptions of the continued credibility of white hegemony. These keywords were added by machine and not by the auth…
War Labour Recruitment and Mobilisation
During the two decades preceding the outbreak of the First World War, Northern Rhodesia acted as a labour reservoir for a wide variety of internal and external industrial and agricultural interests. There were two major externally-based recruiting agencies. The larger was the Rhodesia Native Labour Bureau (RNLB), which since 1903 had served Southern Rhodesian mines and farms and which also recruited, as a sideline, for those of Northern Rhodesia.…
Reconquest and Reconstruction
In November 1918 a war-weary Livingstone executive received a flood of alarmist reports from Tanganyika District officials concerning the rapid mushrooming of a branch of the Watchtower movement, a movement which, in neighbouring Nyasaland, had already been identified as subversive to colonial authority. 1 Before analysing its causes, the close links between its rise to prominence and the wartime disruption of black society and the colonial syste…
The Nadir of Colonial Power in Northern Rhodesia
On 2 April 1917, a terse telegram informed London Wall of a major insurrection in the Barue region of neighbouring Portuguese East Africa. A crucial half-sentence in the despatch, that the rebellion was ‘probably due to commandeering of natives by Portuguese authorities for military service’, 1 brought home the potentially disastrous political consequences the rebellion might have for the Company’s own tenuous control. 2 A London Wall Director, D…
Pre-War Northern Rhodesia
In 1911 two contemporary observers, both BSAC employees, commenting upon the politico-economic development of the northeast Rhodesian Plateau, were forced to admit to its state of stagnation as a ‘colossal Might-Have-Been [ ... ] of gloomy unproductiveness’. 1 It was a description applicable to other substantial areas of the Territory before the outbreak of the First World War. Moreover, the lack of development reflected very much the region’s an…
Colonial Dependence and African Opportunity
Early African response to war labour demands greatly varied and was by no means wholly negative. Initially, many actually volunteered for war service. The relatively high wage scale provided a clear incentive to enlistment not merely as a means of meeting colonial tribute obligations such as poll tax, but as a means of purchasing ‘luxury’ goods with the surplus cash. 1 Thus, one Ngoni remembered the response of some men in his village: ‘They were…
Crumbling Foundations of the Colonial Edifice
The advent of war in August 1918 greatly magnified the politico-economic role of chiefs and headmen within Northern Rhodesia’s colonial framework. Traditional elites were seen as cheap and convenient intermediaries for the extraction of military food and manpower supplies. It was a role accentuated by the serious wartime shortage of white district staff. Furthermore, from the early wartime perspective of many remaining district officials, chiefs,…
The Strain of Total War
The mass labour and food levies from late 1915 right the way through to 1918 inevitably caused severe disruption to the mainly subsistence-based, agricultural economies which predominated amongst the northeast Plateau population. 1 In respect of war labour demands, to reach any accurate estimate of the critical number of absent males that can be tolerated by any one African village economy is extremely difficult. 2 What is certain, however, is th…
Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War
An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surv
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