Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 586
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-5381-1134-5 • Hardback • December 2018 • $153.00 • (£119.00)
978-1-5381-1135-2 • eBook • December 2018 • $145.00 • (£112.00)
Colin Darch is a retired documentalist, librarian and historian who currently holds honorary positions at the University of Cape Town and the Human Sciences Research Council. He worked in Mozambique between 1979 and 1987, and visits frequently. He has published on the country in both English and Portuguese and runs the website Mozambique History Net.
This readable third edition of a major English-language reference work on one of the two former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa is the first update in fifteen years. Editorship has shifted to a librarian and researcher with extensive experience of Mozambique, both in-country from 1979 to 1987, and subsequently on the international scene. All entries in the volume are freshly written to reflect the publication of significant new scholarship on Mozambique in languages other than the two primary bodies of research in Portuguese and English and 21st-century economic and political events. Readers are also provided with information on aspects of Portuguese usage in Mozambique and a valuable introduction covering basic background on land and climate, religion, and major stages of both colonial and post-independence history. Appendixes provide a chronology of colonial military commanders, governors and heads of state from 1501 to 2018, and a listing of contemporary and historical sources of statistical information. Readers will find the listing of acronyms from organizations or governmental units formed in Mozambique and the lengthy bibliography of print and internet resources invaluable.
Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
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