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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

© 2025 Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder

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This book is available in an Open Access digital format published under a CC-BY-NCND 4.0 Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Colonial land legacies in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder.

Names: Barnes, Susanna, editor. | Meitzner Yoder, Laura Suzanne, editor.

Series: Global indigenous issues series ; no. 5.

Description: Series statement: Global Indigenous issues ; no. 5 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20250193221 | Canadiana (ebook) 20250193272 | ISBN 9781773856339 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773856322 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781773856346 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773856353 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773856360 (open access PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Land tenure—Portuguese-speaking countries. | LCSH: Land use— Portuguese-speaking countries. | LCSH: Indigenous peoples—Land tenure— Portuguese-speaking countries. | LCSH: Indigenous peoples—Portuguese-speaking countries— Government relations. | LCSH: Settler colonialism—Portuguese-speaking countries.

Classification: LCC GN449.3 .C65 2025 | DDC 333.2—dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

Funder Logos: Alberta government, Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts.

This book draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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Copyediting by Ryan Perks

Cover image: Colourbox image 3377747; Image comparing settlement patterns from the late 1950s and the 1980s in Malanje, Angola. Sources: Missão Geografica de Angola, ca. 1965, and IGCA, ca. 1989.

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano

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