A History Of Mozambique

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190911166
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Mozambique written by Malyn Newitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M. D. D. Newitt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253340061
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mozambique written by M. D. D. Newitt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-22 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Colin Darch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538111357
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Mozambique written by Colin Darch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Funada-Classen Sayaka
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 4275009525
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of War in Mozambique written by Funada-Classen Sayaka and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on an area called Maúa, not because I believe Maúa represents the whole of Mozambique as such, but because highlighting a specific area and people helps to understand the Mozambican history more deeply and comprehensively. In any case, it would be impossible to study the experience of all Mozambicans. I am not attempting to write a history textbook of Mozambique, or a glorious history of the liberation struggle, but rather trying to fill a gap in the descriptions of contemporary Mozambican history by delving into matters that have not been written about before.

Author : M. D. D. Newitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190847425
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Mozambique written by M. D. D. Newitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Barbara Isaacman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429724551
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozambique written by Barbara Isaacman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on oral interviews as well as written primary sources, the authors of this book focus on the changing and complex Mozambican reality. They focus their study on the changing and complex Mozambican reality to avoid depicting the colonized people as passive victims. .

Author : Allen F. Isaacman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447203
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozambique’s Samora Machel written by Allen F. Isaacman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader. Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their Portuguese colonists and became the first president of the People’s Republic of Mozambique. Machel’s military successes against a colonial regime backed by South Africa, Rhodesia, the United States, and its NATO allies enhanced his reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed people of Southern Africa. In 1986, during the country’s civil war, Machel died in a plane crash under circumstances that remain uncertain. Allen and Barbara Isaacman lived through many of these changes in Mozambique and bring personal recollections together with archival research and interviews with others who knew Machel or participated in events of the revolutionary or post-revolutionary years.

Author : William Finnegan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342380
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complicated War written by William Finnegan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique—a naturally rich country—into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's "forward defense." This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozambicans, especially those who had lived with the bandidos armado, the "armed bandits" otherwise known as the Renamo rebels. The shifting, wrenching, ground-level stories that people told combine to form an account of the war more local and nuanced, more complex, more African—than anything that has been politically convenient to describe. A Complicated War combines frontline reporting, personal narrative, political analysis, and comparative scholarship to present a picture of a Mozambique harrowed by profound local conflicts—ethnic, religious, political and personal. Finnegan writes that South Africa's domination and destabilization are basic elements of Mozambique's plight, but he offers a subtle description and analysis that will allow us to see the post-apartheid region from a new, more realistic, if less comfortable, point of view.

Author : Allen F. Isaacman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520030657
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique written by Allen F. Isaacman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Drew A. Thompson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054643
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filtering Histories written by Drew A. Thompson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the role of photography and other forms of aesthetic practice in processes of state formation and bureaucratic transition