Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa : Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics
Lopes, Rui and Telepneva, Natalia, eds. (2024) Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa : Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 978-1-3503-7833-9 (https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350378339)
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Abstract
Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles, its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of decolonisation. In this open access book, a group of established and up-and-coming historians of Lusophone Africa bring much-needed coherence to this interconnected set of anti-colonial struggles in order to show how people and ideas from these countries crossed borders around the globe. Its international team of contributors draws on a an underutilized range of source material beyond the usual Western state archives in order to cover a wide geographic scope, from North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, all while critically examining the consequences of such international connections within the Lusophone states themselves. For its empirically rich, original contributions to the grand narratives of African independence struggles, this book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in African history, decolonization, and the Cold War, and it is of keen interest to anyone interested in alternative histories of decolonization.
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Item type: Book ID code: 90481 Dates: DateEvent5 September 2024Published2024AcceptedSubjects: History General and Old World > Africa Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Sep 2024 09:07 Last modified: 28 Sep 2024 00:52 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90481