Research Catalog

Title

Confronting Leviathan : Mozambique since independence / Margaret Hall, Tom Young.

Author

Hall, Margaret, 1948-

Publication

London : C. Hurst, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Young, Tom

Description

x, 262 p., [1] folded leaf : col. maps; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Mozambique since independence

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Socialism > Mozambique > History > 20th century
• Socialism > Mozambique > 20th century
• Mozambique > Politics and government > 1975-1994

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Close of Portuguese Rule. The Portuguese colonial order. Frelimo: armed struggle and internal crisis. The final phase, 1968-1974. Aldeamentos and liberated zones -- 2. 'Anything Seemed Possible': The Transition to Independence. The confused interregnum, April-September 1974. Fighting the internal enemy. 'Dynamising' Mozambique. Creating the new society -- 3. The Turn to Marxism. Frelimo's Marxism. Constructing the party-state. Politics and the state after the 3rd Congress. Frelimo and Mozambican society -- 4. The Path to Development. Development: discourse and strategy. Building the socialist economy. The politics of economic transformation, 1977-1982. The Mozambican economy, 1977-1982 -- 5. The Revolution Falters. Origins and early development of Renamo. South African strategy. The turning point. The structure, organisation and credo of Renamo -- 6. 'A Luta Continua': Frelimo Fights Back. The turn to the West. Nkomati and after. Economic crisis and reform.

ISBN

• 1850651159
• 1850651167

LCCN

gb^97062258^

OCLC

• 37823000
• SCSB-13190780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library