Author: David BirminghamPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Portuguese Conquest of Angola
Author: David BirminghamPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Angola Under the Portuguese
Author: Gerald J. BenderPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520042742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The book is the first comprehensive study of race relations in Angola. It covers the entire five-century-long relationship between the peoples of Angola and Portugal. Portuguese imperial thinkers asserted that they were unique among European colonizers in their ability to establish and maintain egalitarian and non-discriminatory relationships with tropical peoples. This concept was elevated to a philosophical plateau and given the name Lusotropicalism. Propagated with fervor by Portuguese colonial thinkers, Lusotropical doctrines were widely accepted as being valid by twentieth-century diplomats and political thinkers in both Europe and the United States, many of whom believed that Portuguese colonialism in Africa would continue indefinitely. The evidence presented in this work indicates that Portuguese rule in Angola was deeply racist. This conclusion is based on a considerable body of data gleaned from archival sources, personal collections, and systematic interviewing of racially diverse Angolans and Portuguese functionaries in the colonial administration and the private sector. Special emphasis is placed on devices that the Portuguese used to delude themselves and others about the realities of their attitudes and behavior as ruling elites. The study concludes with an assessment of the impact of Lusotropical myths on independent Angola.
A Short History of Modern Angola
Author: David BirminghamPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190613173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book 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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Author: David Bevis BIRMINGHAMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Comparative Study of the Portuguese Colonies of Angola and Brazil
Author: Anne Wadsworth PardoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Njinga of Angola
Author: Linda M. HeywoodPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674237447
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.
The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa
Author: Elsa PeraltaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100044063X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book presents a collection of research essays written by experts in the fields of anthropology, history, literature and the arts, that look at a wide range of memory narratives through which the Return—as well as the experiences of war, violence, loss and trauma—have been expressed, contested and internalised in the social realm. These narratives include testimonial accounts from the so-called retornados from Africa and their descendants, as well as works of fiction and public memory—novels, television series, artworks, films or social media—that have come to mediate the public understanding of this past. Through the dialogue between these different narrative modes, this book intends to explore the interplay between official memory, the lived experience and fiction, thus contributing to build an empirical basis to critically discuss the memory of the end of the Portuguese empire within postcolonial Europe. This book will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers and academics, most notably the ones working in the fields of postcolonial studies, cultural studies and memory studies.
Angola
Author: Thomas ColleloPublisher: Department of the Army
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
3d edition. Edited by Thomas Collelo. Prepared by Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Research completed Feb. 1989. Provides information on the history, society, economy, politics, and national security of Angola. Also includes appendices, bibliographies, a glossary, and an index.
Trade and Conflict in Angola
Author: David BirminghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Portugal and Africa
Author: D. BirminghamPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349274909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the twentieth century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernisation and the Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but the peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired traditions, eating Portuguese dishes, writing Portuguese poetry and studying in Portuguese universities.