Colonialismo & Ultramar -''PORTUGUESE AFRICA AND THE WEST', de William Minter - London 1973 - MUITO RARO;

 

Colonialismo & Ultramar - Análise da administração colonial portuguesa nas suas colónias africanas, perante as guerras de libertação desencadearas em Angola, Guiné e Moçambique


'PORTUGUESE AFRICA AND THE WEST'
De William Minter
Monthly Review Press
London 1973


Livro com 192 páginas, ilustrado e em muito bom estado de conservação.
De muito, muito difícil localização.
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COVER PHOTO: 

The photo on the jacket is of an MPLA detachment on the Benguela Railroad. 

O AUTOR / The author:
William Minter is the editor of AfricaFocus Bulletin (http://www.africafocus.org). He has been a writer, researcher, and activist since the mid-1960s, focusing particularly on southern Africa and international issues. He studied at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in 1961-62 and taught in Tanzania and Mozambique at the secondary school of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) in 1966-68 and 1974-76. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a certificate in African studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Minter worked as a writer, editor, and researcher at Africa News Service (now http://allafrica.com) in Durham, N.C. in 1973 and 1976-82. Based in Washington since 1982, he has combined personal research and writing with contract work for a number of organizations, including policy analysis, writing, and development of computer-mediated communication tools. This has included work for Africa Action and its predecessor organization, the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC), from 1992 through fall 2003, and for the affiliated Washington Office on Africa (WOA), from 1992 to 1997.



Do ÍNDICE: / CONTENTS: 

List of Maps 

PREFACE 

Preface to the American Edition 

1. THE SHAPE OF PORTUGUESE ‘ULTRACOLONIALISM’ 

- The myth and reality of assimilation 

- Forced labour: A modern slavery 

- Assimilation strategies? 

- Portuguese intransigence: is there a reason? 

2. AMERICAN POLICY UNDER TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER: THE IRRELEVANCE OF SELF-DETERMINATION 

- The second World War, Portugal, and George Kennan 

- Independence for Africa? 

- Portugal’s inclusion in NATO 

- Portugal as seen by American Policy-Markers 

- The United Nations takes up the issue 

3. THE EMERGENCE OF ARMED STRUGGLE AGAINST PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM 

- Angola: initial explosion and protracted warfare 

- Guinea-Bissau: successful revolution in a small country 

- Mozambique: The beginnings of a long struggle 

- Portugal’s ‘Civilizing Mission’ and counter-insurgency 

4. AMERICAN POLICY UNDER KENNEDY AND JOHNSON: IMAGE AND CONTRADICTION 

- The ‘Santa Maria’, Angola, and the United Nations 

- Standing still and moving backwards 

- Pressures for the standstill policy 

- Basic factors limiting change in policy 

- Persuading Portugal to reform 

5. MILITARY SUPPORT FOR PORTUGAL 

- Portugal’s military: organized for colonial repression 

- American military aid to Portugal 

- The NATO alliance and Portugal 

- The Azores 

- Covert and indirect military support 

- ‘Good working relationship’ 

6. THE GROWING STAKE OF AMERICAN BUSINESS IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA 

- Portugal’s economy and finances 

- Oil and other mineral resources 

- American supplies for the portuguese army 

- Agricultural exports to the United States 

- The significance of american economic involvement 

7. PORTUGAL’S OTHER ALIES: THE ‘FREE WORLD’ DEFENDS COLONIALISM 

- South Africa: Keystone of white rule in Southern Africa 

- Great Britain: the ancient alliance continued 

- Help from the Federal Republic of Germany 

- France: support without scruples 

- Brazil: a new Afro Asian policy reversed 

- Cooperative support for colonial repression 

8. WHAT FUTURE FOR AMERICAN POLICY ? 

9. NEW DEVELOPMENTS 1970-71 

- The war continues 

- Imperial contradictions 

10. THE NIXON DOCTRINE: WHAT ROLE FOR PORTUGAL ? 

- Trends in U.S. Policy 

- Portugal’s neo-colonial option 

- The Liberation struggle continues to advance 

Appendix: Membership of Council on Foreign Relations Study Groups on Africa, 1966-8 

Appendix: Advertisements 

Suggested reading and other sources 

Index 

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