A Dictionary Of Mozambican History And Society

Author : Colin Darch,Amélia Neves de Souto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Mozambique
ISBN : 0796926026

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A Dictionary of Mozambican History and Society by Colin Darch,Amélia Neves de Souto Pdf

"This book, now co-authored with Mozambican scholar Amélia Neves de Souto, is based on Colin Darch’s Historical Dictionary of Mozambique (2019), with new entries, updated information, and the correction of some minor errors of fact and interpretation. Written primarily for a South African readership, the revised edition aims to make information on Mozambique easily available and affordable for readers interested in the history of one of South Africa's closest neighbours. Over several centuries, relations between the two emerging territories have been complex and sometimes troubled, and although the economies of the two countries have for many years been interdependent, the simple fact that Mozambique is officially a Portuguese-speaking country has acted as a barrier to understanding. The emphasis is on contemporary history and society from the middle of the twentieth century onwards, with perhaps one-third of the entries dealing with topics and personalities from that period. However, the dictionary includes multiple entries covering the period before the arrival of the Portuguese in the late fifteenth century, as well as on the five centuries of their often precarious presence in Mozambique."--

Author : Colin Darch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111352

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Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Colin Darch Pdf

The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str 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, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique.

Author : Mario Joaquim Azevedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022238615

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Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Mario Joaquim Azevedo Pdf

Author : Mario Joaquim Azevedo,Emmanuel U. Nnadozie,Tombe Nhamitambo Mbuia-João
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111946997

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Historical Dictionary of Mozambique by Mario Joaquim Azevedo,Emmanuel U. Nnadozie,Tombe Nhamitambo Mbuia-João Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Mozambique, Second Edition is a concise chronological analysis of the historical, socio-political, economic, and cultural issues Mozambique has faced as well as the personalities that have shaped its history from the earliest times to the present.

Author : M. D. D. Newitt,Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190847425

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A Short History of Mozambique by M. D. D. Newitt,Malyn Newitt Pdf

This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence and its continued after-effects. Though peace was achieved in 1992 through international mediation, Mozambique's remarkable recovery has shown signs of stalling. Malyn Newitt explores the historical roots of Mozambican disunity and hampered development, beginning with the divisive effects of the slave trade, the drawing of colonial frontiers in the 1890s and the lasting particularities of the north, centre and south, inherited from the compartmentalized approach of concession companies. Following the nationalist guerrillas' victory against the Portuguese in 1975, these regional divisions resurfaced in a civil war pitting the south against the north and centre, over attempts at far-reaching socioeconomic change. The settlement of the early 1990s is now under threat from a revived insurgency, and the ghosts of the past remain. This book seeks to distill this complex history, and to understand why, twenty-five years after the Peace Accord, Mozambicans still remain among the poorest people in the world.

Author : Victor L. Tonchi,William A. Lindeke,John J. Grotpeter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879904

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Historical Dictionary of Namibia by Victor L. Tonchi,William A. Lindeke,John J. Grotpeter Pdf

On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to bring economic development and greater equity to their country. The Historical Dictionary of Namibia covers the history of Namibia through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Namibia.

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032288196

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A History of Mozambique by Malyn Newitt Pdf

This book summarizes five hundred years of the history of the societies that exist within the area that became Mozambique in 1891. It also takes the story up to the present, including the War of Liberation and Mozambique after independence. It is work of major scholarship that will appeal to experts and students alike.

Author : Owen J. M. Kalinga,C. A. Crosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062435899

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Historical Dictionary of Malawi by Owen J. M. Kalinga,C. A. Crosby Pdf

This third edition of the dictionary emphasizes what the editor calls the "new" Malawi, or post Banda era, in which Malawi is seeking to reintroduce democracy and reinforce its capitalist heritage. The alphabetically arranged entries include broad topics such as environment, as well as specific examples of items such as government agencies, like the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation. Other entries, such as ethnic groups, incorporate dozens of other terms with their own entries, i.e. Ngoni, Nyanja, and Yao. Kalinga, currently teaching history at North Carolina State U., has also taught at a variety of African universities, including the University of Malawi, and Crosby whose research interests lie in the economics of East Africa, is currently a high school teacher and administrator. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mozambique
ISBN : 1868142507

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A history of Mozambique by Malyn Newitt Pdf

Author : David Morton
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780821446751

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Age of Concrete by David Morton Pdf

Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical “slums,” these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people’s highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Unlike many histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. David Morton thus models a different way of thinking about urban politics during the era of decolonization, when one of the central dramas was the construction of the urban stage itself. It shaped how people related not only to each other but also to the colonial state and later to the independent state as it stumbled into being. Original, deeply researched, and beautifully composed, this book speaks in innovative ways to scholarship on urban history, colonialism and decolonization, and the postcolonial state. Replete with rare photographs and other materials from private collections, Age of Concrete establishes Morton as one of a handful of scholars breaking new ground on how we understand Africa’s cities.

Author : Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785332364

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Violent Becomings by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Pdf

Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called ‘traditional’ forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification, liberation war struggles and civil war, the social engineering of the post-independence state, and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262935

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Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195382075

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Dictionary of African Biography by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

Author : A. Iriye,P. Saunier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349740307

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The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History by A. Iriye,P. Saunier Pdf

Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war.

Author : Andrew E. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429844133

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Environment, Health and Population Displacement by Andrew E. Collins Pdf

First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas through detailed spatial and temporal analysis of recent cholera and bacillary dysentery epidemics in Mozambique. The book examines the influence of environmental, demographic and socio-economic changes on the nature and context of cholera and bacillary dysentery. It provides a detailed background to the two diseases based on their ecology and contemporary status in human communities together with analysis of extensive primary field data centered on three key urban areas in central Mozambique. Influences are weighed up against factors relating to the individual ecologies of the different pathogens, primary subsistence, and the impacts of Mozambique's history of conflict and development policies on human vulnerability. The extensive case study material is used to provide clear indications of appropriate ways forward in the field of environmental health management.