Includes bibliographical references and index.

Material culture and consumption patterns: a Southern African revolution / Robert Ross , Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Pesa -- Wearing cloth, wielding guns: consumption, trade, and politics in the South Central African interior during the nineteenth century / David M. Gordon -- The role of firearms in the Songye Region (1869-1960) / Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu -- Sipilingas: intraregional african initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910-1945 / J. Jeffrey Hoover -- ?Walking Home Majestically?: Consumption and the enactment of social status among labour migrants from Barotseland, 1935-1965 / Michael Barrett -- Railways, railway culture, and ?Industrial work discipline? in the Rhodesias / Kenneth P. Vickery -- Advertising, consuming manufactured goods and contracting colonial hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Fabricating dreams: sewing machines, tailors, and urban entrepreneurship in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Indian traders as agents of western technological consumption and social change in Mukuni: memories of the Sharma Brothers' trading store, 1950s to 1964 / Friday Mufuzi -- The social and economic impact of the Fort Jameson (Chipata) indians on the development of Chipata District, 1899-1973 / Bizeck J. Phiri -- Business, consumption and politics: Robinson Nabulyato's Banamwaze Store, 1949-1969 / Marja Hinfelaar -- Buying pineapples, selling cloth: traders and trading stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940-1970 / Iva Pesa.

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