Portugal and Africa by David Birmingham
Politics & Social Sciences | Politics & Government

Title:
Portugal and Africa
Author:
David Birmingham
ISBN:
089680237X
ISBN13:
978-0896802377
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1821 kb
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1439 kb
Publisher:
Ohio University Press (July 29, 2004)
Language:
English
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Portugal lost its major mining claims in Africa to the British, but it left a legacy of a new pattern of white settler colonization based on American-style plantations. The blending of European and African cultures and races led to the emergence of elite communities, from the Kongo princes of the seventeenth century to the creolized generals of today.
Portugal and Africa focuses extensively on Angola to cast new light on the final years of the colonial experience and its traumatic legacies. After 1950, Portuguese Angola became one of the most dynamic of Africa's colonies and the largest white colony outside of Algeria or South Africa. Angola's eventual collapse in a series of wars had devastating results. Birmingham brings the terror and devastation to life in a series of powerful chapters that are a model of disciplined scholarship and informed passion.