With the onset of Salazarism in the 1930s, the cult of the Portuguese Discoveries—itself a product of late nineteenth-century Portuguese nationalism—again became a fulcrum of …
In 1961, the Kennedy Administration decided to adopt a new African policy, supporting self-determination and independence. This change occurred while the war against Portuguese colonial …
Guthrie, Zachary Kagan (2018). Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965. University of Virginia Press, 240 pp. ISBN 9780813941547
The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of the territories under Portuguese sovereignty in the …
Morier-Genoud, Eric (2019). Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940-1986. The University of Rochester Press, 279 pp. ISBN: 9781580469418
This article analyzes the positions adopted by the Portuguese Communist Party in relation to the colonial question. Before doing so, however, the article discusses the …
Stucki, Andreas (2018). Violence and Gender in Africa’s Iberian Colonies: Feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s. Palgrave Macmillan, 362 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-17230-5