Ian Phimister: “Copper and Decolonisation in Central Africa: Sir Ronald Prain and the End of Empire” Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:00-4:30 p.m. Wyoming Stock Growers’ Room American Heritage Center Reception following lecture -- Free and open to the public

Ian Phimister, the 2007 George A. Rentschler Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, is a professor in the History Department of The University of Sheffield. His research interests lie in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century Africa, and particularly in the overseas interests of the City of London in the same period. He has written or co-authored several books on the economic and social history of Zimbabwe, as well as more than 50 articles on aspects of African history and British overseas economic expansion. Professor Phimister teaches nineteenth and twentieth century African history at all levels. He also teaches a general course on Britain’s retreat from empire.

The George A. Rentschler Distinguished Visiting Lecture series is made possible by an endowment established by Frederick B. Rentschler and his mother, the late Rita Rentschler Cushman.