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Allen F Isaacman

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ID3612419
NAMEAllen F Isaacman
GIVEN NAMESAllen F
FAMILY NAMEIsaacman
SIGNATUREISAACMAN A F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Minnesota
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS128
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5
  • Jumping over histories: Transborder migration from colonial Mozambique to colonial Zimbabwe ca 1945–1975

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of African…•2025

  • Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short

    Allen Isaacman, Albie Sachs et al.•BOOK•Mozambique's Samora Machel•2020•Cited by: 1

    "From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"

  • Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Southern African Studies•2015•Cited by: 1

    In 1969, Portugal and South Africa signed an agreement that enabled the apartheid regime effectively to extend its tentacles of empire over the proposed dam at Cahora Bassa. Located in the heart of central Mozambique, far from the South African frontier, the dam became a security project masked as a development initiative. Cahora Bassa, including the massive lake behind the dam, rather than becoming the multi-purpose dam originally envisaged by P…

  • Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•BOOK•Dams, Displacement, and the…•2013

  • Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Africa Today•2005•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Allen Isaacman, Premesh Lalu, Thomas Nygren, Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 2, African Electronic Publishing (Winter, 2005), pp. 55-77

  • Cotton is the mother of poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961

    Allen F Isaacman•BOOK•Cotton is the mother of poverty•1996•Cited by: 39

  • Cotton, colonialism, and social history in sub-Saharan Africa

    Allen F Isaacman, Richard Roberts•BOOK•Cotton, colonialism, and social…•1995•Cited by: 29

    This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore the range of …

  • Confronting historical paradigms: Peasants, labor, and the capitalist world system in Africa and Latin America

    Allen F Isaacman, Frederick Cooper•BOOK•Confronting historical paradigms•1993•Cited by: 14

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975

    Patrick Harries, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•African Economic History•1989•Cited by: 2

    Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and edu…

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence 1905-1975

    Malyn Newitt, Raul Honwana et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1989

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975

    Raul Honwana, Allen F Isaacman•BOOK•The Life History of Raul Honwana•1988

    Raul Honwana's autobiography, spanning the colonial period and the transition to independence in Mozambique, provides significant new insights into Mozambique's social and political history

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley 1850-1921

    Nancy R Northrup, Nancy Northrup et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1980

  • The Recent Political History of South Central Africa

    Melvin E Page, Lawrence Vambe et al.•ARTICLE•ASA Review of Books•1977

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921

    David Chanaiwa, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1977

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambezi Valley, 1850-1921

    R G Stuart, Rob Stuart et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of African…•1977

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambesi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Donald L Wiedner, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1975•Cited by: 18

  • Zambia before 1890: Aspects of Pre-Colonial History

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1975•Cited by: 2

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution. The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Douglas L Wheeler, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1973•Cited by: 17

  • The Portuguese Prazo System

    Thomas H Henriksen, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•1973

  • Cotton is the mother of poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961

    Allen F Isaacman•BOOK•Cotton is the mother of poverty•1996•Cited by: 39

  • Cotton, colonialism, and social history in sub-Saharan Africa

    Allen F Isaacman, Richard Roberts•BOOK•Cotton, colonialism, and social…•1995•Cited by: 29

    This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore the range of …

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambesi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Donald L Wiedner, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1975•Cited by: 18

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution. The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Douglas L Wheeler, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1973•Cited by: 17

  • Confronting historical paradigms: Peasants, labor, and the capitalist world system in Africa and Latin America

    Allen F Isaacman, Frederick Cooper•BOOK•Confronting historical paradigms•1993•Cited by: 14

  • Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Africa Today•2005•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Allen Isaacman, Premesh Lalu, Thomas Nygren, Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 2, African Electronic Publishing (Winter, 2005), pp. 55-77

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975

    Patrick Harries, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•African Economic History•1989•Cited by: 2

    Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and edu…

  • Zambia before 1890: Aspects of Pre-Colonial History

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1975•Cited by: 2

  • Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short

    Allen Isaacman, Albie Sachs et al.•BOOK•Mozambique's Samora Machel•2020•Cited by: 1

    "From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"

  • Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Southern African Studies•2015•Cited by: 1

    In 1969, Portugal and South Africa signed an agreement that enabled the apartheid regime effectively to extend its tentacles of empire over the proposed dam at Cahora Bassa. Located in the heart of central Mozambique, far from the South African frontier, the dam became a security project masked as a development initiative. Cahora Bassa, including the massive lake behind the dam, rather than becoming the multi-purpose dam originally envisaged by P…

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution. The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Douglas L Wheeler, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1973•Cited by: 17

  • The Portuguese Prazo System

    Thomas H Henriksen, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•African Studies Review•1973

  • Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambesi Prazos, 1750-1902

    Donald L Wiedner, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1975•Cited by: 18

  • Zambia before 1890: Aspects of Pre-Colonial History

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1975•Cited by: 2

  • The Recent Political History of South Central Africa

    Melvin E Page, Lawrence Vambe et al.•ARTICLE•ASA Review of Books•1977

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921

    David Chanaiwa, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1977

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambezi Valley, 1850-1921

    R G Stuart, Rob Stuart et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of African…•1977

  • The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley 1850-1921

    Nancy R Northrup, Nancy Northrup et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1980

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975

    Raul Honwana, Allen F Isaacman•BOOK•The Life History of Raul Honwana•1988

    Raul Honwana's autobiography, spanning the colonial period and the transition to independence in Mozambique, provides significant new insights into Mozambique's social and political history

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975

    Patrick Harries, Allen Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•African Economic History•1989•Cited by: 2

    Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and edu…

  • The Life History of Raul Honwana: An inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence 1905-1975

    Malyn Newitt, Raul Honwana et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1989

  • Confronting historical paradigms: Peasants, labor, and the capitalist world system in Africa and Latin America

    Allen F Isaacman, Frederick Cooper•BOOK•Confronting historical paradigms•1993•Cited by: 14

  • Cotton, colonialism, and social history in sub-Saharan Africa

    Allen F Isaacman, Richard Roberts•BOOK•Cotton, colonialism, and social…•1995•Cited by: 29

    This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore the range of …

  • Cotton is the mother of poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961

    Allen F Isaacman•BOOK•Cotton is the mother of poverty•1996•Cited by: 39

  • Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Africa Today•2005•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Allen Isaacman, Premesh Lalu, Thomas Nygren, Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project, Africa Today, Vol. 52, No. 2, African Electronic Publishing (Winter, 2005), pp. 55-77

  • Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•BOOK•Dams, Displacement, and the…•2013

  • Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Southern African Studies•2015•Cited by: 1

    In 1969, Portugal and South Africa signed an agreement that enabled the apartheid regime effectively to extend its tentacles of empire over the proposed dam at Cahora Bassa. Located in the heart of central Mozambique, far from the South African frontier, the dam became a security project masked as a development initiative. Cahora Bassa, including the massive lake behind the dam, rather than becoming the multi-purpose dam originally envisaged by P…

  • Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short

    Allen Isaacman, Albie Sachs et al.•BOOK•Mozambique's Samora Machel•2020•Cited by: 1

    "From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"

  • Jumping over histories: Transborder migration from colonial Mozambique to colonial Zimbabwe ca 1945–1975

    Allen Isaacman, Allen F Isaacman et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of African…•2025

African history and culture studies (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Africa (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works)

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