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Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa
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Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles, its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of decolonisation.
In this open access book, a group of established and up-and-coming historians of Lusophone Africa bring much-needed coherence to this interconnected set of anti-colonial struggles in order to show how people and ideas from these countries crossed borders around the globe. Its international team of contributors draws on a an underutilized range of source material beyond the usual Western state archives in order to cover a wide geographic scope, from North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, all while critically examining the consequences of such international connections within the Lusophone states themselves.
For its empirically rich, original contributions to the grand narratives of African independence struggles, this book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in African history, decolonization, and the Cold War, and it is of keen interest to anyone interested in alternative histories of decolonization.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Table of Contents
Part I. Ideas and Rhetoric of Liberation
Chapter 1. Bourgeois Revolutionaries: Holden Roberto, American Anticommunism, and the Angolan Revolutionary Government in Exile - Alexander Marino (United States Army War College, USA)
Chapter 2. “Our Country or Death”: Reconstructing the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee's (COREMO) Political Ideology through its Public Discourse - Lazlo Passemiers (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Chapter 3. “If you want to call it Marxism, you may call it Marxism” – Amilcar Cabral on Class and National Liberation - Rita Narra (NOVA University, Portugal)
Part II. Networks and Strategies of Solidarity
Chapter 4. The Year after Africa: How the UN Response to Angola and Goa Militarized Decolonization - Joseph Parrott (Ohio State University, USA)
Chapter 5. The Struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing Imaginaries Around the Unliberated Region - Ana Moledo (Leipzig Universiy, Germany)
Chapter 6. Fighting for Neutrality: The Sino-Soviet Split, Afro-Asian Conferences and the Liberation Movements of the Portuguese Colonies - Juliao Soares Sousa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Chapter 7. The Canadian Broad Left and the Anti-Colonial Struggle at Home and Abroad: The Case of the Toronto Committee for the Liberations of Portugal's African Colonies - Marcal de Menezes Paredes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Chapter 8. The Condor Spreads Its Wings: The South American Secret Missions in Africa after the Carnation Revolution - Gisele Lobato (Interuniversity Doctoral Program in History, Portugal)
Part III. The Economy and Policies of Independence
Chapter 9. Beyond “Flag Independence”: The Decolonization Committee and Foreign Interests in the Portuguese Colonies, 1965–1974 - Aurora Santos (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal)
Chapter 10. Polish Relations with Angola, 1975-1989: Transfer of Knowledge and Military Assistance with Limited Economic Outcome - Przemyslaw Gasztold (Warsaw University, Poland)
Chapter 11. Globalising Violence and Resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe - Inês Nascimento Rodrigues (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Gerhard Seibert (Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal)
Chapter 12. The Making of Independent Cabo Verde: Militant Non-alignment, Active Neutrality and Fading Anti-imperialism - Victor Barros (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Osvaldino Monteiro (University of Cabo Verde, Cape Verde), Suzano Costa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Chapter 13. (Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture, 1975-80 - Paulo Cunha (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), Catarina Laranjeiro (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Rui Lopes (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal),
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Product details
| Published | Sep 05 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350378308 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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