ANGOLA: 5 CENTURIES of CONFLICT by HENDERSON/1979 1ST

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ANGOLA: 5 CENTURIES of CONFLICT by HENDERSON/1979 1ST ANGOLA: FIVE CENTURIES OF CONFLICT. BY LAWRENCE W. HENDERSON. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1979. First Edition. Very Scarce. A nice First Edition copy of this scarce and fascinating book about the history of Angola, written just after Angola's independence from Portugal. Published 30 years ago, this book is now long out of print and scarce. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Dust Jacket: "Angola occupies a strategic position in volatile southern Africa. This book is a concise and informative survey of its history and politics from the fifteenth century to the present, written by a man who served as a missionary in Angola for over twenty years. For the past 500 years Angola has seen ceaseless conflict. Recognition of this fact, Lawrence Henderson maintains, is essential for an understanding of the war of liberation in 1961-1974 and the current struggle among rival political movements. After describing Angola's natural environment, ethnolinguistic groups, and daily life, he surveys the history of the slave trade, the transition from slavery to colonialism, and developments in the colonial period, when Portugal exercised direct control over the entire country. he explains how political independence came about as a result read more

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