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  1. Half-title page
  2. Global Indigenous Issues Series
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Maps, Tables, Figures, and Images
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. Foreword - Colonial Land Legacies: Questions and Insights from Southeast Asia
  10. Introduction - Colonial Portuguese Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective
  11. Part I
    1. 1 - The Roots of Inequality: Sesmaria Land Grants in Colonial Brazil
    2. 2 - From Squatters to Smallholders? Configurations of African Land Access in Central and Southern Colonial Mozambique, 1910s–1940s
    3. 3 - “Everyday” Displacements in Colonial Angola: Changing Political Geographies of Infrastructure, Gender, and Quotidian Village Concentration
    4. 4 - Baldios, Communal Land, and the Portuguese Colonial Legacy in Timor-Leste
  12. Part II
    1. 5 - Dutch Colonialism and Portuguese Land Legacies in Flores
    2. 6 - Land Access in a Slave Society: The Case of Maranhão Province, Northern Brazil
    3. 7 - The Impact of Portuguese Development Thought and Practice on Land Relations in the Late Portuguese Colonial Period
    4. 8 - The Remaking of Territories and Political Institutions: Community Land Delimitation in Northern Mozambique
  13. Part III
    1. 9 - The Trajectory of the Plantation System in Mozambique: The Case of Madal in Micaúne
    2. 10 - Land Governance as a Source of Legal Opportunities in Struggles Around Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Mozambique
    3. 11 - Colonial Concessions: The Antinomies of Land Policy in Portuguese Timor
    4. Afterword - The Amphibious Colonial Empire
  14. About the Contributors
  15. Index

Maps, Tables, Figures, and Images

Maps

2.1. Map of Mozambique, 1929

2.2. Map of native reserves, hunting reserves, and national colonization reserves, 1944

3.1. Map of village geo-location contemporary data and main roads in Angola

5.1. Flores in the late colonial period.

6.1. Eastern Maranhão—parishes and the importance of small ownership

6.2. Population of Maranhão, by micro-region (1838)

7.1. Map of Maliana

8.1. Administrative post of Cóbuè

8.2. Community delimited lands, representing the territories of régulos

9.1. Map of the prazos in the Zambezi Delta

9.2. Map of Prazo Mahindo

10.1. ProSavana research area in northern and central Mozambique

Tables

3.1. Differential pay rates for traditional authorities based on village size were included in 1923 legislation

6.1. Number of declarations, properties, and landowners in nine parishes of eastern Maranhão, 1854–7

6.2. Gender of landowners and forms of property in nine Maranhão parishes, 1854–7

6.3. Property size in nine parishes of Maranhão, 1854–7

6.4. Property size in nine parishes of Maranhão, 1854–7 (with extrapolated depth)

10.1. Comparison of Wanbao and ProSavana

11.1. Recipients of major land concessions in 1900

Figures

3.1. Quotidian village concentration and relocation in western Malanje

3.2. Growth in reported kilometres of roads in Angola, 1911–33

3.3. Erasure of villages on Malanje colonial land registry map, ca. 1960s

3.4. Erasure of colonial villages, Figueira plantation, ca. 1970

3.5. Former house locations (red dots for 1950s), overlaid on 1980s map (villages as black rectangles)

5.1. Main mytho-historical elements of the emergence of Larantuka and Sikka

6.1. Properties according to size in Itapecuru parishes, 1854–7

6.2. Properties according to size in Parnaiba parishes, 1854–7

Images

5.1 The last raja of Sikka, Thomas da Silva, with his consort Dua Eba Sadipung

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