Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
by Allen Isaacman
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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.Tags
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- Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
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- Mozambique
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- Religion & Spirituality, History, Philosophy, Economics, Nonfiction, Art & Design, Music, Food & Cooking, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Reference, Politics and Government, Technology, Science & Nature, Sociology, Business, Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Home & Garden
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- 338.1 — Society, government, & culture Economics Production Agricultural products
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- HD9087 .M62 .I8 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Special industries and trades Agricultural industries
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