Sowing the seeds of failure: Early portuguese cotton cultivation in angola and mozambique, 1820-1926

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 43-70

  Pitcher, M Anne ^a  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON PRODUCTION; ESTADO NOVO; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLICY REGIME; PORTUGUESE GROWERS;

ANGOLA; MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 0026341346     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: 14653893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057079108708266     Document Type: Article

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