TY  - BOOK
AU  - Candido,Mariana P.
TI  - Wealth, land and property in Angola: a history of dispossession, slavery, and inequality 
T2  - African studies series
SN  - 9781316511503
AV  - HC950 .C36 2022
U1  - 330.967/303 23/eng/20220616
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Angola
KW  - History
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Property
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  -  Fellow
KW  - Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History
KW  -  Class of Fall 2023
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history"--
ER  -