Table of Contents

The commercial revolution in the Ovimbundu States, 1840s-1904; the politics of pacification and colonization - the early colonial state, 1904-1926; the "Estado Novo" (New State) and the politics of economic subjugation, 1926-1960; social change and the New State, 1926-1960; the Ovimbundu and the late colonial state - authority versus autonomy, 1961-1974; the anticolonial struggle and the roots of Ovimbundu nationalism, 1961-1974; the Ovimbundu and the postcolonial state, 1974-1992.

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Immensely informative book. . . adds substantially to the existing literature.
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