Contents

Maps, Tables, Figures, and Images

Acknowledgements

Preface

Laura S. Meitzner Yoder and Susanna Barnes

Foreword: Colonial Land Legacies: Questions and Insights from Southeast Asia

Tania Murray Li

Introduction: Colonial Portuguese Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective

Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder

Part I—Administrative Practices and Governance Strategies

1 The Roots of Inequality: Sesmaria Land Grants in Colonial Brazil

Carmen Alveal

2 From Squatters to Smallholders? Configurations of African Land Access in Central and Southern Colonial Mozambique, 1910s–1940s

Bárbara Direito

3 “Everyday” Displacements in Colonial Angola: Changing Political Geographies of Infrastructure, Gender, and Quotidian Village Concentration

Aharon deGrassi

4 Baldios, Communal Land, and the Portuguese Colonial Legacy in Timor-Leste

Bernardo Almeida

Part II—Indigenous-Settler Entanglements

5 Dutch Colonialism and Portuguese Land Legacies in Flores

Hans Hägerdal

6 Land Access in a Slave Society: The Case of Maranhão Province, Northern Brazil

Matthias Röhrig Assunção

7 The Impact of Portuguese Development Thought and Practice on Land Relations in the Late Portuguese Colonial Period

Susanna Barnes

8 The Remaking of Territories and Political Institutions: Community Land Delimitation in Northern Mozambique

Elisio Jossias

Part III—Economic Imperatives and Global Articulations

9 The Trajectory of the Plantation System in Mozambique: The Case of Madal in Micaúne

José Laimone Adalima

10 Land Governance as a Source of Legal Opportunities in Struggles Around Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Mozambique

Laura Gerken

11 Colonial Concessions: The Antinomies of Land Policy in Portuguese Timor

Douglas Kammen and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder

Afterword: The Amphibious Colonial Empire

Ricardo Roque

About the Contributors

Index