the main economic activities in Northern Rhodesia at the beginning of the twentieth century were mining (mainly copper) and agriculture. From the available data concentrated within a 35-kilometre stretch on both sides of the …网页copper production in Northern Rhodesia by British capital at the expense of American capital. The latter had technical expertise and dominated world copper production since the late nineteenth century but attempts to extend these essentials of capitalist monopoly to the Northern Rhodesian mining industry were finally网页of Northern Rhodesia. Underdevelopment is a process in which capi- talist relations of production are generalized and production increased largely in response to external imperatives over which direct producers have little control.4 It is argued in this paper that the development of flue-cured tobacco culture in NorthernIn 1926 Northern Rhodesia 1 stood on the cusp of what the government described as "one of the greatest mineral developments ever experienced." 2 Within a few years the Nchanga,