African History without Africans
Basil Davidson: Portugal’s Empire, 18 February 1999
The Lusiads
by Luí Vaz de Camões, translated by Landeg White.
Oxford, 258 pp., £6.99, October 1997,0 19 283191 7 Show More
by Luí Vaz de Camões, translated by Landeg White.
Oxford, 258 pp., £6.99, October 1997,
Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War, 1961-1974
by John Cann.
Greenwood, 216 pp., $59.95, February 1998,0 313 30189 1 Show More
by John Cann.
Greenwood, 216 pp., $59.95, February 1998,
The Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa
by Norrie MacQueen.
Longman, 280 pp., £15.99, February 1998,0 582 25993 2 Show More
by Norrie MacQueen.
Longman, 280 pp., £15.99, February 1998,
African Guerrillas
edited by Christopher Clapham.
James Currey, 208 pp., £40, September 1998,0 85255 815 5 Show More
edited by Christopher Clapham.
James Currey, 208 pp., £40, September 1998,
“... only those who agree with his a priori thesis. In The Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa, Norrie MacQueen gives a more dependable account of the end of the Portuguese empire, seeing this great drama as a many-sided and complex affair. Yet if his version of what happened in the tumultuous years 1961-75 is careful and conscientious so far as the ... ”
