Part 1. Background: Introduction: a new take on late colonial Northern Rhodesia / Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar
Northern Rhodesia: the post-war background, 1945-1953 / Andrew D. Roberts
Part 2. The polyphony of African nationalism: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the formation of ZANC/UNIP: a reinterpretation / Giacomo Macola
Kalonga Gawa Undi X, nationalists and the quest for freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Walima T. Kalusa
The realization of a Catholic social doctrine in the context of the rise of nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s / Marja Hinfelaar
Odd man out: labour, politics and Dixon Konkola / Kenneth P. Vickery
Part 3. The unsettled world of settlers: Proletarians in paradise: the historiography and historical sociology of white miners on the Copperbelt / Ian Phimister
Rivers of white: David Livingstone and the 1955 commemorations in the lost 'Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa' / Joanna Lewis
Fears and fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950-1960 / Jan-Bart Gewald
Indian political activism in colonial Zambia: the case of Livingstone's Indian traders / Friday Mufuzi
Cinemas, spices and sport: recollections of Hindu life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia / Joan M. Haig
Part 4. Participating observers: Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison's 'Fishing Area', Mweru-Luapula, 1948-1959 / Christopher M. Annear
Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950-1960 / Andrew J. DeRoche.
Living the end of empire : politics and society in late colonial Zambia. ISBN 9789004209862. Published by Brill in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.