| A Short History of Modern Angola Contributor(s): Birmingham, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0190271302 ISBN-13: 9780190271305 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2016 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - General - History | Africa - Central |
| Dewey: 967.3 |
| LCCN: 2015509499 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" L (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps |
| Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2016 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later as conscript workers. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, by several hundred white political convicts, and by a couple of thousand black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbor city of Luanda which grew in the twentieth century to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labor was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan laborers to produce sugar cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the twentieth century Congo copper supplemented this wealth, by gem-quality diamonds, and by offshore oil. Although much of the countryside retained its dollar-a-day peasant economy, new wealth generated conflict which pitted white against black, north against south, coast against highland, American allies against Russian allies. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations. |
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