Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Linda Heywood

Product details

• Authors: Linda Heywood, Linda M. Heywood
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2000
• EAN: 9781580460637
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-063-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 637 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918