Angola and Mozambique, 1870-1905

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Title:	Angola and Mozambique, 1870-1905
Authors:	Smith, Alan K. Smith, Gervase Clarence
Book title:	The Cambridge History of Africa: vol. 6: From 1870 to 1905
Year:	1985
Pages:	493-521
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Angola Mozambique Portugal
Subjects:	colonialism economic history
Abstract:	Until 1885 Angola was still the principal jewel in the Portuguese imperial crown, with larger revenues than those of any other colony. As the age of accelerated imperialism was to begin, Mozambique found itself in a much greater state of disarray. By 1905, new patterns of dependency and production for the export market had significantly modified the place of the two major colonies within the imperial whole. Angola showed a regular and extremely large deficit. But it could count on the white settlers of the south with their disproportionate political influence in Lisabon, while the powerful textile lobby in Portugal looked to Angola as one of its major markets. Mozambique was now entering a period of great stability and relative prosperity. But as there was no vocal settler community, and as Portuguese commercial interests were much weaker, it could not stop its budgetary surpluses from being used to subsidise other parts of the empire, and notably Angola. Bibliogr. essay p. 799-801, bibliogr. p. 867-869, notes.