In January 1935, a railway bridge 2.3 miles long was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique). 51 years later, it was blown up by anti-government forces fighting with RENAMO. This book, which is based on Portuguese and British archives, brings together politics, diplomacy, economics, labour history and technology to show how this major engineering feat was a disaster of colonial planning. Today, the lower Zambesi bridge is by far the grandest of the ruins of colonial enterprise littering the vast river valley.
- ISBN10 0333551702
- ISBN13 9780333551707
- Publish Date 23 April 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English