The Late Colonial State in Portuguese Africa

Itinerario

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 110-122

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EID: 85023016381     PISSN: 01651153     EISSN: 20412827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0165115300024608     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. There are a number of general works that deal with the Portuguese African Empire in the twentieth century. The most important general account which concentrates almost entirely on economic policy is W.G. Clarence Smith, The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825–1975 (Manchester 1985)
2. for Angola the best general account is Rene Pelissier, La Colonie du Minotaure (Orgeval 1978)
3. for Mozambique see M. Newitt, A History of Mozambique (London 1995)
4. Aurelio Rocha, Carlos Serra and David Hedges eds, Historia de Mofambique II (Maputo 1983)
5. for Sao Tomé see Francisco Tenreiro, A Ilka de Sao Tome (Lisbon 1961)
6. the more recent Gerhard Seibert, Comrades, Clients and Cousins (Leiden 1999).
7. Among general works on modern Portugal Richard Robinson, Contemporary Portugal (London 1979) is very informative.
8. For Delgado's campaign see D.L. Raby, Fascism and Resistance in Portugal (Manchester 1988).
9. This is the argument of Clarence Smith in The Third Portuguese Empire, chapter 7. See also Norrie MacQueen, The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (Harlow 1997).
10. Tom Lodge, ‘The Southern African Post-Colonial State’, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 36 (1998) 20–47.
11. For the weakness of the colonial state prior to 1926 see Newitt, History of Mozambique, Barry Neil-Tomlinson, ‘The Nyassa Chartered Company: 1891–1929’, Journal of African History 18 (1977) 109–128
12. Leroy Vail, ‘Mozambique's Chartered Companies: The Rule of the Feeble’, Journal of African History 17 (1976) 389–416.
13. For the South African campaign to take over the port of Lourenco Marques see, S. Kat-zenellenbogen, South Africa and Southern Mozambique (Manchester 1982)
14. for Sāo Tomé labour scandals see James Duffy, A Question of Slavery (Oxford 1967).
15. L. Vail and L. White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique (London 1980) chapter 7.
16. For Salazar's economic policies see Clarence Smith, Third Portuguese Empire
17. Anne Pitcher, Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry and Cotton 1926–1974 (Oxford 1993) contains a useful first chapter on imperial policy and is a detailed study of the cotton growing campaigns and their metropolitan context.
18. For the cotton campaigns see also Vail and White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique, Allen Isaacman, Cotton is the Mother of Poverty Currey (London 1996).
19. Vail and White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique, 307.
20. For the decline of the assimilado class see Rocha, Serra and Hedges, Historia de Mocambique II, 288–289.
21. By far the most detailed account of the events in Sāo Tome is contained in Seibert, Comrades, Clients and Cousins, 55–71.
22. MacQueen, Decolonisation; see also A. Rita-Ferreira, Moçambique post-25 de Abril: Causas do Exodo da Populaçao de Origen Europeia e Asiática, extract from Moçambique: Cultura e História de urn Pais (Coimbra 1988).
23. Vail and White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique, chapter 7.
24. Jeanne Penvenne, African Workers and Colonial Racism (London 1995) is the best study of a colonial city in the Portuguese empire.
25. Kenneth Hermele, Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Southern Mozambique: A Case Study of Chokwe, Limpopo 1950–1987 (Uppsala 1988).
26. D.M. Abshire and M.A. Samuels, Portuguese Africa: A Handbook (London 1969) chapters 6 and 7.
27. Vail and White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique, 307–308.
28. Clarence Smith, The Third Portuguese Empire, chapter 6.
29. Vail and White, Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique, chapter 9
30. for Sao Tome see Tony Hodge and Malyn Newitt, Sāo Tomé: From Plantation Colony to Microstate (Boulder 1988) chapter 6.