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Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Part I

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Part I
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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

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