Allison K. Shutt
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Also affiliated: University of Zimbabwe (2004)
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Allison K. Shutt's research focuses on the social and cultural history of Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe). Her work examines the construction of racial etiquette, the impact of colonial policies on African education, and the economic lives of Black farmers in the purchase areas. Shutt investigates the ways in which colonial authorities and settlers used legislation and social norms to maintain racial hierarchies and control populations. Her publications analyze the period from the early 20th century through the mid-1960s, exploring themes of land ownership, social mobility, and the development of a Black middle class within the context of settler colonialism. She has published on topics including the legislative control of behavior, land sales, and the cultural significance of agricultural practices among Rhodesian settlers.
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- h-index: 7
- Publications: 46
- Citations: 157
Selected Publications
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Elijah Doro. Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. African Studies Series, 162. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi + 308 pp. Figures. Tables. List of Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $39.99. Paper. ISBN: 9781009096256. (2026)
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Admire Mseba. Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960 (2025)
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L uise W hite . Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. (2021)
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Duncan Money and Danelle van Zly-Hermann, eds. Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa 1930s–1990s. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa. New York: Routledge, 2020. v + 242 pp. Bibliography. Index. $160. Cloth. Free Open Access. ISBN: 978-0367376420. (2021)
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Community building and belonging in Southern Rhodesia’s purchase areas (2020)
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George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane. The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950. (2019)
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Writing Jasper Savanhu’s biography from his awkward self-narratives (2019)
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Christopher J. Lee. Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. xvii + 368 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5725-4. (2018)
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‘I TOLD HIM I WAS LENNOX NJOKWENI’: HONOR AND RACIAL ETIQUETTE IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA (2010)
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‘The Natives Are Getting Out of Hand’: Legislating Manners, Insolence and Contemptuous Behaviour in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1910–1963* (2007)
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Hunting for Development: People, Land and Wildlife in Southern Zimbabwe. By P ER Z ACHRISSON . Göteborg: University of Göteborg, 2004. Pp. v+277. No price given (ISBN 91-628-6329-0). (2006)
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AFRICAN MIDDLE-CLASS STRATEGIES IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965. By M ICHAEL O. W EST . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xv+324. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-34085-3); $22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21524-2). (2004)
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THE SETTLERS' CATTLE COMPLEX: THE ETIQUETTE OF CULLING CATTLE IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE, 1938 (2002)
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SQUATTERS, LAND SALES AND INTENSIFICATION IN MARIRANGWE PURCHASE AREA, COLONIAL ZIMBABWE, 1931–65 (2002)
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Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe: Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s (2001)
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