Linda Heywood

Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed, historiographical examination of the Ovimbundu people in Angola from 1840s through to the present day. The book focuses on the relationship between the Ovimbundu and the colonial regime and the efforts they made to gain and wield influence in the colony. The book concludes with an interesting look at the role the Ovimbundu played in the post-independence civil was and its aftermath.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781580460637
• ISBN-10: 1580460631
• Artikelnr.: 21232665

Autorenporträt

Linda Heywood

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction and Acknowledgments
1. The Commercial Revolution in the Ovimbundu States, 1840s-1904 2. The
Politics of Pacification and Colonization: The Early Colonial State,
1904-1926 3. The Estado Novo (New State) and the Politics of Economic
Subjugation, 1926-1960 4. Social change and the New State, 1926-1960 5. The
Ovimbundu and the Late Colonial State: Authority versus Autonomy, 1961-1974
6. The Anticolonial Struggle and the Roots of Oviumbundu Nationalism,
1961-1974 7. The Ovimbundu and the Postcolonial State, 1974-1992 Epilogue
Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index