This book examines the history of the colonial conquest of a
neglected region of Angola from an alternative perspective. Dr
Clarence-Smith has used advances in Marxist theory to develop a
model of the early colonial period which differs greatly from the
established historiography of African resistance'. Although the
main focus is on local socio-economic structures, one chapter
places the region in the wider context of the political economy of
the partition of Africa, with strong emphasis on the economic
motivations of Portugal. A brief epilogue brings the story in
outline to the end of Portuguese colonialism. The rest of the book
analyses colonial society and African peasant societies in turn.
Capitalist relations of production were generally predominant in
local colonial society, but slavery persisted into the 1910s and
was followed by a system of forced labour.
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