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Empire in Africa : Angola and its neighbors / David Birmingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birmingham, David.
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 84.
- Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 84
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angola--History.
- Angola.
- Portugal--Colonies--Africa--History.
- Portugal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970's, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans or those experienced by Angola's neighbors in the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, or the Dutch colonies at the Cape...
- Contents:
- The idea of empire
- Wine, women, and war
- Merchants and missionaries
- A Swiss community in highland Angola
- The case of Belgium and Portugal
- Race and class in a "fascist" colony
- The death throes of empire
- Destabilizing the neighborhood
- Carnival at Luanda
- The struggle for power
- A journey through Angola.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-89680-452-6
- OCLC:
- 884016851
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