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Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-61 (Social History of Africa) (Hardcover)
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: James Currey Ltd (28 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0852556713
ISBN-13: 978-0852556719
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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.