COTTON IS THE MOTHER OF POVERTY: PEASANTS, WORK, & RURAL STRUGGLE IN COLONIAL MOZAMBIQUE, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa)

By Allen Isaacman and Allen F. Isaacman

Book Overview

Portuguese officials forced nearly a million African peasants to grow cotton in colonial Mozambique under a regime of coercion, brutality, and terror. The colonial state sought to control almost every... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435089765
• ISBN13: 9780435089764
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"