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Author: Rui Lopes (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal) ,
Natalia Telepneva (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781350378346
ISBN 10: 1350378348
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 March 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""This is an essential collection for scholars of empire and its oppositions. Connecting local concerns with wider anti-colonial pressures, the contributors explain why liberation struggles in Lusophone Africa became so emblematic of global decolonization and the coalitions it brought together."" --Professor Martin Thomas, Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, University of Exeter, UK ""This important collection assembles an international group of scholars whose work deepens and extends the study of twentieth century decolonisation in exciting ways. Lopes and Telepneva have crafted a coherent framework which brings into focus a very rich diversity of analyses and perspectives. Ranging across an extended empirical terrain from diplomacy and economic cooperation to film, this volume brings substance, detail and context to crucial themes such as liberation, solidarity, 'global cold war' and non-alignment. Delving into diverse archives, the authors construct compelling accounts which situate the independence struggles of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe within global dynamics as well as highlighting their internal tensions. These close studies of linked anticolonial struggles and the difficult quest for postcolonial reconstruction bring to the fore overlooked actors, re-evaluate existing narratives, and chart new frames of analysis and understanding."" --Professor Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Cardiff University, UK
Author Information
Natalia Telepneva is Lecturer in International History at University of Strathclyde, UK. She is the author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and Collapse of Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 (2022) and co-editor of Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War (I.B Tauris, 2018). Rui Lopes is a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London, UK. He is the author of West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968-1974: Between Cold War and Colonialism (2014).
