I have just uploaded (to New Stories) the Preface, Foreword and Contents of Lewis H. Gann's book,

Northern Rhodesia, 1894-1914
THE BIRTH OF A PLURAL SOCIETY

2nd edition, 1968

From reviews of the first edition (1958):
'A book everyone should study to get to grips with the reasons for today's problems.'—Central African Post.

'The author, who combines historical with cultural-anthropological erudition, has succeeded in writing a history of the area that also takes into account such internal factors as the political relations between the tribes, their social and political organization, etc. The historical development that led to the plural society of 1914 is shrewdly analysed and an investigation is made into the role played by each of the components: Africans, missionaries, the officials of the government, and the white settlers.'—International Review of Social History.

'One would wish this book to be widely read.'—The Guardian.

'Working with anthropologists, Mr. Gann has been able to give a detailed historical sketch of the tribal position when the Europeans arrived, has shown where the missionaries went, and has then brought on to his stage administrators, miners, railwaymen, farmers and traders, men who, in their racial complexity (British, Afrikaner, Jew, Indian and other), had entered the plural society of Northern Rhodesia by 1914. Mr. Gann's scholarly use of the Rhodesian and missionary archives makes this a most valuable work,'—History.