Economic boycotts are by now a familiar, if not quite believable, story to Rhodesia’s rebellious whites. The Brit ish declared one against them in 1965 without much noticeable effect, and the United ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...