A Short History of Modern Angola

by David Birmingham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190271302
• ISBN13: 9780190271305
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"