Wealth, land, and property in Angola : a history of dispossession, slavery, and inequality /
Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption and inequality in west central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesizing disparate strands of scholarship, including the hist...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | African studies series ;
160. |
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| Summary: | Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption and inequality in west central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesizing disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure and gender in west central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labor. By centering the experiences of west central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316511503 1316511502 9781009055987 1009055984 |