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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: short history of modern Angola
  name:
    name part: Birmingham, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 159 pages : map ; 23 cm.
  abstract: David Birmingham begins this short history of Angola in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the 19th century, the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, white political convicts and black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbor city of Luanda which grew to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labor was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan laborers to produce sugar-cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the 20th century, this wealth was supplemented by Congo copper, by gem-quality diamonds and by off-shore oil. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.
  note: David Birmingham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ao---
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: Angola
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Angola
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Angola
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Angola
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Angola
    topic: Colonization
  classification: DT1325 .B58 2015
  classification: 967.3
  identifier: 0190271302
  identifier: 9780190271305
  identifier: 1849045143
  identifier: 9781849045148
  identifier: 1849045194
  identifier: 9781849045193
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 160208
    record change date: 20160226103444.0
    record identifier: in00003611957