Historical dictionary of Mozambique
Colin Darch (Author)
This new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the semi-Africanized prazos along the Zambezi Valley; "pacification" campaigns; and the period of Portuguese weakness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vast tracts of land were rented to concessionary companies. In the late colonial period, the Salazar dictatorship tried to reassert Portuguese power, but, after ten years of armed struggle for national liberation, Mozambique gained its independence in 1975. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 600 cross-references entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. It is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique--back cover
Print Book, English, 2019
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Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2019
Dictionaries
xliv, 541 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9781538111345, 9781538111352, 1538111349, 1538111357
1043955444
Editor's foreword
Preface
Reader notes
Acronyms and abbreviations
Map
Chronology
Introduction
The dictionary
Appendix A: Colonial military commanders and governors (1501-1975) and heads of state and government (1975-2018)
Appendix B: Historical and contemporary statistical sources
Bibliography