Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa)

Isaacman, Allen

ISBN 10: 0435089781 / ISBN 13: 9780435089788

Published by Heinemann, 1996

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Good+ pictorial softcover. 1996. SIGNED/Inscribed by AUTHOR on half title page. SOME RED UNDERLINING TO PAGES. Mild scuffs. Covers clean. Binding solid. 272 pp.

Seller Inventory # L09845

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa)
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435089781
• ISBN 13: 9780435089788
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good +
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

This book explores the lives of Mozambique's cotton producerstheir pain and suffering, their coping strategies, their struggles to survive.

About the Author

ALLEN ISAACMAN is professor of history and director of the MacArthur Program on Peace and International Cooperation at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, (1972), The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique (1976), Mozambique from Colonialism to Revolution (1983), Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa (1995), and Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, (1995).