A History of Mozambique

This book summarizes five hundred years of the history of the societies that exist within the area that became Mozambique in 1891. It also takes the story up to the present, including the War of Liberation and Mozambique after independence. It is work of major scholarship that will appeal to experts and students alike.

MALYN NEWITT is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at Exeter University and author of numerous articles and book, including Portuguese Settlement on the Zambezi and Portugal in Africa.

Preface and Acknowledgments

Glossary

1. The Mozambique Channel Region in the Sixteenth Century

2. The Interior South of the Zambesi in the Sixteenth Century

3. Mozambique North of the Zambesi to the Middle of the Seventeenth Centruy

4. The Portugues Conquest and the Loss of the High Veldt

5. Government of Mozambique

6. Afro-Portuguese Society and Town Life

7. Southern Mozambique

8. International Relations and Coastal Commerce, 1600-1800

9. The Gold Fairs

10. The Prazos

11. The Time of Troubles: Drought, the Slave Trade and the Nguni Invasions

12. Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

13. Zambesia and the Zambesi Wars

14. Mozambique and the Scramble for Africa, 1879-1891

15. Mozambique: the Making of the Colonial State

16. Mozambique under the Monarchy and the Republic

17. Mozambique and the New State

18. Labour Migration to South Africa and Southern Rhodesia

19. The War of Liberation

20. After Independence

References

Bibliography

Index