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Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty

Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-61 - Social History of Africa S.

Paperback (15 Feb 1996)

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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: 9780852556214
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Imprint: James Currey Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.1735109679
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 540g
Height: 227mm
Width: 142mm