Washington D.C., The World Bank, 2007. — 156 p. Angola: Oil, Broad-based Growth, and Equity is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Once one of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 288 p. This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later as conscript workers....
Ohio University Press, 2006. — 200 p. — (Ohio RIS Africa Series). — ISBN: 0896802485, 9780896802483. The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 159 p. — ISBN: 9780190271305. This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later...
Cape Town: Blue Weaver Marketing, 2019. - 289 p. The third explosive account written in the same novelistic style as Zulu Zulu Golf and Zulu Zulu Foxtrot. More experiences with the deadly counter-insurgency unit Koeveot during the Angolan Border War. Zulu Foxtrot reloaded covers Durand's last two of six years with the unit. Once again patrols, ambushes and contacts, situations...
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 151 p. — (Exploration of Africa: The Emerging Nations). — ISBN: 0-7910-6197-3. Photographs and text look at the past, development, and present culture of Angola and its inhabitants. The Dark Continent (Dr. Richard E. Leakey). The Trader. The Aristocrat. The Teacher. The Kingdom of the Kongo. The Mbundu. The Ovimbundu. The Bailandu...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 369 p. List of maps Acknowledgements Internationalism in the Cuban Revolution and the birth of the alliance with the MPLA, 1959–65 The Cuban mission to Brazzaville and the collapse of the alliance, 1965–74 The Carnation Revolution and the failure of Angola’s decolonisation, April 1974–October 1975 Operations Savannah and Carlota, October–November 1975 The...
Routledge, 2005. — 372 p. A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention. It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA which evolved into the flagship of its global 'internationalist'...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 280 p. This investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-1976 examines the interaction between internal and external factors to reveal the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 405 p. — ISBN 978-0-299-30103-3 Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southern central Africa, gained independence in 1975 and almost immediately plunged into more than two decades of conflict and crisis. Fidel Castro sent Cuban military troops to Angola in support of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), leading to its...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 320 p. Though largely unknown in the Western world, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Linda Heywood offers the first full-length study in English of Queen Njinga's long life and...
Indiana University Press, 2001. — 200 p. Although abundantly endowed with oil, diamonds, and other natural resources, the African nation of Angola has suffered decades of military conflict, economic decline, and human misery. Tony Hodges' incisive case study shows that it is AngolaÍs very wealth that has brought the country to its current wretched condition.
Routledge, 2020. — 325 p. When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three liberation groups-UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)-agreed to a tripartite movement for the fledgling nation. Conflicts quickly arose and the MPLA, with...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 572 p. Angola, slowly recovering from a twenty-seven year civil war, is becoming a regional super-power in southern Africa. This rise can be attributed to oil, diamonds, a battle-tested armed forces and a political system that is dominated by one party – the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (the Popular Movement for the...
2nd ed. — Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0810871939. Dominated and exploited by Portugal for almost five centuries, Angola achieved independence in 1975 after a bitter struggle to eject the Portuguese. But that was not the end of it. This was followed by an even nastier civil war, which lasted for 27 years. It was further complicated by the Cold War, and continued...
Routledge, 2019. — 228 p. The Angolan War of 1975-1976 focused international attention on an area -long relegated to the sidelines of world diplomacy and accented the historical momentum toward black control of southern African states. This book is the first to examine why a localized conflict in a remote area was the object of such extensive global concern. Dr. Klinghoffer...
Nordic Africa Institute, 2007. — 264 p. Rebels and Robbers is about the political economy of violence in post-colonial Angola. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt at analyzing how the military and non-military dynamics of more than four decades of conflict created the structural violence that stubbornly defines Angolan society even in the absence of war. The book...
Routledge, 2020. — 195 р. Making a fresh contribution to our understanding of the history of Angola, this book explores the impact of social, political and economic change upon the largest ethnic group of the country, the Ovimbundu. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Angola, including oral testimonies and life stories, participant-observation, and archival materials,...
Ohio University Press, 2008. — 320 p. — (New African Histories). — ISBN: 0821418238, 9780821418239. Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation...
Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2004. — 315 p. Originally formed in order to lend support to the FNLA and UNITA in the Angolan war, 32 Battalion quickly gained the reputation of being an unconventional, secretive, yet highly effective group. Written by a man who was intimately involved with the unit and served as its Regimental Sergeant Major for two years, the book aims to explode the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. — 272 p. Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the gendered...
Maspero, 1971. — 165 p. Le Portugal, dernière puissance coloniale, mène trois guerres en Afrique: en Angola depuis 1961, en Guinée-Bissau depuis 1963 et au Mozambique depuis 1964. Il y consacre 47 % de son budget et son corps expéditionnaire dépasse cent cinquante mille hommes. Marc Ollivier et Mario De Andrade (ce dernier, membre du M.P.L.A., Mouvement populaire de libération...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 205 p. This book examines the internal politics of the war that divided Angola for more than a quarter-century after independence. In contrast to earlier studies, its emphasis is on Angolan people's relationship to the rival political forces that prevented the development of a united nation. Pearce's argument is based on original interviews...
Cornell University Press, 2017. — 270 p. Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system--an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment--Jon Schubert...
Westview Press, 1986. — 236 p. Angola was first settled by San hunter-gatherer societies before the northern domains came under the rule of Bantu states such as Kongo and Ndongo. In the 15th century, Portuguese colonists began trading, and a settlement was established at Luanda during the 16th century. Portugal annexed territories in the region which were ruled as a colony from...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 564 p. — ISBN-10 1911096419. — ISBN-13 9781911096412. This is a completely fresh work running to near 600 pages including 32 pages of color photos, with the main thrust on events before and after the civil war that followed Lisbon’s over-hasty departure back to the metrópole. There are also several sections that detail the role of South African...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 217 p. Angola is the third largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and plans to accede to the Commonwealth. However, it is poised at a crossroads between a past marked by civil war and corruption and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise of a corrupt ruling elite, as well...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-230-11777-8. This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation’s modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It is also the first to cover, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, 1998-2002, culminating in Jonas...
Zed Press, 1983. — 264 p. This is a comprehensive account of Angola's struggle since Independence to build a new society. The authors base their account on both published and unpublished materials, inter- views with key figures and their own observations. Part One tells how a free Angola was born in 1975-76 out of war with South Africa, Zaire and the West's Angolan proteges. It...
М.: Вагриус, 2001. — 214 с., [65]. Место действия книги - Африка. Здесь длительное время сталкивались интересы двух сверхдержав, СССР и США. Анатолий Адамишин, заместитель министра иностранных дел СССР в 1986-1989 годах, рассказывает о событиях, свидетелем и участником которых он являлся, с научной достоверностью и вместе с тем живо и увлекательно. Книга интересна также анализом...
М.: Вагриус, 2001. — 478 с., [65]. Место действия книги - Африка. Здесь длительное время сталкивались интересы двух сверхдержав, СССР и США. Анатолий Адамишин, заместитель министра иностранных дел СССР в 1986-1989 годах, рассказывает о событиях, свидетелем и участником которых он являлся, с научной достоверностью и вместе с тем живо и увлекательно. Книга интересна также...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 217 с. С 1961 г. народ Анголы с оружием в руках ведет борьбу за свободу против португальского колониализма. О том, как начиналась эта борьба, о победах и поражениях, о трагическом расколе сил сопротивления и о становлении подлинно национального самосознания рассказывают очерки французского писателя Р. Давези, побывавшего в 1964 г. на местах событий....
М.: Наука, 1985. — 129 с. В книге анализируются этапы перерастания Народного движения за освобождение Анголы (МПЛА) в авангардную партию трудящихся (МПЛА — ПТ). Выявляется роль МПЛА—ПТ как руководящей и созидательной силы ангольского общества. Становление МПЛА—Партии труда рассматривается в процессе последовательной борьбы революционно-демократических сил против раскольников и...
М.: Этника (ИП Трошков А.В.) 2014. — 128 с. + вклейки. Книга военного журналиста Коломнина С. А посвящена событию, значение которого трудно переоценить для современной истории Африки. Это битва при Кифангондо, которая произошла с 23 октября по 10 ноября 1975 г. в Анголе, и стала первой совместной победой МПЛА и кубинских интернационалистов над иностранными интервентами и...
Москва: Memories, 2008. — 317 с. «Куито-Куанавале. Неизвестная война» является переработанным и дополненным переизданием книги «Устная история забытых войн. Воспоминания ветеранов войны в Анголе», выпущенной в 2007 г. в издательстве «Memories». В данном сборнике приведены воспоминания военного переводчика подполковника запаса А.А. Григоровича (об арабо-израильской войне 1973 г....
Перевод с английского О. Л. Орестова и О. С. Томановской. — М.: Наука, 1984. — 271 с. Исследование генезиса раннегосударственных и догосударственных образований на севере Анголы. Процесс государствообразования рассматривается как результат внутреннего развития общества. Особое внимание уделено интерпретации собранных автором исторических преданий через призму культурных...
М.: Наука, ГРВИ, 1968. — 144 с. Введение Колониальный режим в Анголе Экономическая эксплуатация Полицейско-бюрократическая система управления Социальная ролб европейских поселенцев Лузо-тропикализм-идеология португальского колониализма Национально-освободительное движение до восстания 1961 Религиозные секты. Культурно-просветительные организации Образование политических...
М.: Наука, 1968. — 294 с. В монографии анализируется уровень общественного развития народа баконго, создавшего средневековое государство Конго, показывается характер и особенности социальных отношений, сложившихся до прихода в страну португальских конкистадоров и католических монахов. Много внимания уделяется работорговле и её пагубному влиянию на жизнь народов низовья Конго....
М.: Госполитиздат, 1961. — 32 с.: ил. В одной из «заморских провинций» Португалии - далекой Анголе силы национально-освободительного движения вступили в вооруженную борьбу с колонизаторами. Идет сражение против колониальной системы грабежа и насилия, которая столетиями давила, угнетала ангольский народ. О том, что происходит в Анголе, какие события предшествовали вооруженному...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 1999. — 392 с. Книга академика РАЕН А. М. Хазанова представляет собой первую в отечественной африканистике обобщающую работу по истории Анголы. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы истории Анголы в новое и новейшее время до завоевания независимости 11 ноября 1975 г. Показаны особенности общественно-политического развития народов Анголы до и...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 1999. — 392 с. Книга академика РАЕН А. М. Хазанова представляет собой первую в отечественной африканистике обобщающую работу по истории Анголы. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы истории Анголы в новое и новейшее время до завоевания независимости 11 ноября 1975 г. Показаны особенности общественно-политического развития народов Анголы до и...
Друзья, на просторах нашей библиотеки есть множество книг и учебных материалов на португальском языке, находящихся вне языковых разделов. К сожалению, зачастую эти книги редко попадаются на глаза заинтересованным пользователям, за исключением случаев, когда пользователь специально ищет данную конкретную книгу. При этом эти книги, несомненно, представляют большую ценность и...
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