Short History of Modern Angola 1st Edition by  David Birmingham ISBN 0190613459 9780190613457

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ISBN 10: 0190613459

ISBN 13: 9780190613457

Author:   David Birmingham 

Short History of Modern Angola 1st Edition: 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.

 

Short History of Modern Angola 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Forging of a Colony

2. The Urban Culture of Luanda City

3. Trade and Politics in the Hinterland

4. Land and Labour in the South

5. From Slave Trading to White Settlement

6. Colonialism versus Nationalism

7. The Struggles of the Seventies

8. Survival in the Eighties

9. Civil War and the Colonial Aftermath

 

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