Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-61 (Social History of Africa S.)

by Allen F. Isaacman

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This study of the colonial Portuguese regime's economic policy in Mozambique shows how nearly a million African peasants were forced to grow cotton. It explores the lives of these cotton producers, through interviews with former cotton growers and their families, as well as African policemen and overseers, and Portuguese settlers, merchants, missionaries and officials.
  • ISBN10 0852556217
  • ISBN13 9780852556214
  • Publish Date 15 February 1996 (first published 16 October 1995)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 4 November 2003
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint James Currey
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English