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Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty

Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 - Social History of Africa

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Publisher's Synopsis

This study of the colonial Portuguese regime's economic policy in Mozambique shows how nearly a million African peasants were forced to grow cotton. It explores the lives of these coton producers, through interviews with former cotton growers and their families, as well as African policemen and overseers, and Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries and officials.

Book information

ISBN: 9780852556719
Publisher: Heinemann
Imprint: Heinemann
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.1735109679
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 550g
Height: 227mm
Width: 142mm