Allen Isaacman
Biographic Data
| ID | 97214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Isaacman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Isaacman |
| SIGNATURE | ISAACMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Jumping over histories: Transborder migration from colonial Mozambique to colonial Zimbabwe ca 1945–1975
Water Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change
This essay explores the multiple ways in which the nexuses between water scarcity and climate change are socially and historically grounded in ordinary people's lived experiences and are embedded in specific fields of power. Here we specifically delineate four critical dimensions in which the water crises confronting the African continent in an age of climate change are clearly expressed: the increasing scarcity, privatization, and commodificatio…
Cahora Bassa Dam & the Delusion of Development
On December 6, 1974, two pressure-driven steel gates of the Cahora Bassa Dam, each weighing 220 tons, stopped the mighty Zambezi River in its course. After five years of toil by more than five thousand workers, the construction of Mozambique's Cahora Bassa was complete. At the time, it was the fifth-largest dam in the world. The hydroelectric dam was the last megaproject constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Through th…
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short
"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"
Toward a Biography of Samora Machel: The Making of a Revolutionary, 1933–1970 ca
Scholars have written extensively about the role Samora Machel played in FRELIMO during the armed struggle and as the first president of Mozambique. In sharp contrast, we know precious little about Samora’s formative years (1963–1970) and how they shaped his political thinking and action. In what ways did his experiences as a herd boy in southern Mozambique, his difficulties in the colonial educational system, his conflictual relationship with th…
Malyn Newitt. A Short History of Mozambique
Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750–1900
Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam
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
Eric Allina. Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
Although the Portuguese arrived on the coast of Mozambique in 1498, it took them four hundred years to establish effective control over it. Only after the 1884–1885 Congress of Berlin did Lisbon attempt to impose its authority. Burdened with massive debt, divided by political factions, and unable to attract capital, Lisbon lacked the capacity to occupy and develop vast tracts of the Mozambican interior , forcing it to outsource the exploitation o…
Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750–1900
Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project
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
Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900
Allen Isaacman, Derek Peterson, Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2003), pp. 257-281
Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000
List of figures Preface List of abbreviations and acronyms Glossary Map Introduction 1. The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence 2. Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique 3. State sector erosion and the turn to the market 4. A privatizing state or a statist privatization? 5. Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing 6. Capital and countryside after structural adjustment 7. The end of Mar…
Legacies of Engagement: Scholarship Informed by Political Commitment
Scholar-activists, by virtue of their critical engagement in the central issues of the day and their role in the production and dissemination of knowledge, have a unique opportunity to challenge the inherited orthodoxies in the academy and in the larger world in which we live. Within the field of African studies they have served as powerful critics and have broken new substantive, conceptual, methodological, and epistemological ground. To sustain…
Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam
This paper examines the intertwined social and environmental histories of the Cahora Bassa dam constructed on the Lower Zambesi River in Mozambique. A basic premise of this historical analysis is that social and ecological sustainability are necessarily linked. We trace the transformations wrought by Cahora Bassa and the devastating effects on peasant communities inundated by the dam's reservoir, on down-river communities and on the ecosystems of…
Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Part One Cotton policies and African realities: note on cotton and climate the cotton campaign in northern Nigeria 1902-14 - a planning failure cotton in german Toogoland 1800-1914 cotton and colonial order in Sudan - the Gezira system the Portuguese colonial cotton regime in Angola and Mozambique 1946-74. Part Two Struggles over labour/struggles over markets: forced cotton cultivation in northern Mozambique peasants and the struggle for labour i…
Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Introduction: The setting - the antecedents and formation of the Mozambican cotton regime 180-1938. Part One Cotton and rural labour 1938-51: cotton, colonialism and work variations in the cotton regimes peasants at work - gardening and ginning. Part Two The era of reform 1951-61: reforming the system - rationalizing the labour process. Part Three Long-term consequences 1938-61: cotton and food insecurity cotton and rural differentiation coping w…
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
Paradigms, Pedagogy and Politics: Thinking about Africa in the Twenty-First Century
Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Historical argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked the fields of African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system. Moreover, it maintains, the intellectual reverberations within and across the African and Latin American fields constitute a challengin…
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Peasants and Rural Social Protest in Africa
Peasants are an ambiguous social category. They are difficult to define and their political behavior defies most generalizations. Nevertheless, social scientists, many working outside of Africa, have produced a voluminous literature debating both the critical characteristics and the analytical utility of the term peasant. Some take the view that peasants have been defined so broadly and contradictorily as to render the concept virtually useless a…
Resistance and Collaboration in Southern and Central Africa, c. 1850-1920
Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasant Resistance to Forced Cotton Production in Mozambique, 1938-1961
Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution, 1900-1982
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambesi Prazos, 1750-1902
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution. The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902
Legacies of Engagement: Scholarship Informed by Political Commitment
Scholar-activists, by virtue of their critical engagement in the central issues of the day and their role in the production and dissemination of knowledge, have a unique opportunity to challenge the inherited orthodoxies in the academy and in the larger world in which we live. Within the field of African studies they have served as powerful critics and have broken new substantive, conceptual, methodological, and epistemological ground. To sustain…
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: Anti-Colonial Activity in the Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921
Chiefs, Rural Differentiation and Peasant Protest: The Mozambican Forced Cotton Regime 1938-1961
In 1938 the Portuguese government imposed a system of forced cotton cultivation throughout Mozampique. Within a decade peasant production increased tenfold. By 1961 it had almost doubled again. Mozambican cotton, imported at artificially depressed prices, fueled the Portuguese textile industry and saved Lisbon millions of dollars annually in hard currency. In the decade after World War II, Mozambican cotton regularly sold on the metropolitan mark…
The Prazeros as Transfrontiersmen: A Study in Social and Cultural Change
Fifteenth-century maritime expansion precipitated an unprecedented exchange of ideas and technology between Europe and the indigenous societies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.2 While scholars have focused on the broad political and economic impact of the overseas exploration, they have been less concerned with patterns of local interaction and the concomitant processes of social change. Recently social scientists have developed a number of an…
Madzi-Manga, Mhondoro and the use of oral traditions—a chapter in Barue religious and political history
This study seeks to redefine the ritual significance of the madzi-manga through the use of Barue oral traditions. It goes beyond a redefinition of the ritual to study the entire process of investiture, the role of the senior mhondoro in Barue society, and the exact nature of the relationship between the Barue and the Portuguese. It concludes that the madzi-manga represented neither a Catholic baptism nor a syncretic religious practice, as has bee…
Coercion, paternalism and the labour process: The Mozambican cotton regime 1938-1961
(1992). Coercion, paternalism and the labour process: the Mozambican cotton regime 1938–1961. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 18, Political Violence in Southern Africa, pp. 487-526
The Mozambique Cotton Cooperative: The Creation of a Grassroots Alternative to Forced Commodity Production
In 1957 a dozen northern Mozambicane living in the Makonde highlands organized the Mozambique African Voluntary Cotton Society. By 1959 membership had increased to almost three thousand and output per grower far exceeded per capita yields of neighboring peasant producers. A year later the colonial state outlawed the cooperative. Portuguese officials claimed that it had become a hotbed of subversive activity. Subsequent efforts by the leaders of t…
The Past Is Another Country: Rhodesia, 1890-1979
Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam
This paper examines the intertwined social and environmental histories of the Cahora Bassa dam constructed on the Lower Zambesi River in Mozambique. A basic premise of this historical analysis is that social and ecological sustainability are necessarily linked. We trace the transformations wrought by Cahora Bassa and the devastating effects on peasant communities inundated by the dam's reservoir, on down-river communities and on the ecosystems of…
Peasants, Work and the Labor Process: Forced Cotton Cultivation in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961
Journal Article Peasants, Work and the Labor Process: Forced Cotton Cultivation in Colonial Mozambique 1938–1961 Get access Allen Isaacman Allen Isaacman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 4, Summer 1992, Pages 815–855, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.4.815 Published: 01 July 1992
The Quest for an African Eldorado: Sofala, Southern Zambezia, and the Portuguese, 1500-1865
Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project
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
Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900
Allen Isaacman, Derek Peterson, Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2003), pp. 257-281
Social banditry in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Mozambique, 1894-1907: An Expression of Early Peasant Protest
It has been almost two decades since Hobsbawm first advanced the concept of social banditry and a decade since he fully developed this analytical construct in his seminal study of rural protest.2 The social bandits' organic relationship to the peasantry and their efforts to destroy the institutions that oppressed the rural populace, Hobsbawm argued, differentiated them from a variety of outlaws and brigands who indiscriminately preyed upon all se…
The Origin, Formation and Early History of the Chikunda of South Central Africa
Although historians have examined the process of pre-colonial political integration, little attention has been paid to the complementary patterns of ethnic and cultural assimilation. The Chikunda, who were initially slaves on the Zambezi prazos , provide an excellent example of this phenomenon. Over the course of several generations, captives from more than twenty ethnic groups submerged their historical, linguistic, and cultural differences to d…
Mozambique
A Luta Continua! Recent Literature on Mozambique
The Role of Women in the Liberation of Mozambique
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Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000
List of figures Preface List of abbreviations and acronyms Glossary Map Introduction 1. The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence 2. Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique 3. State sector erosion and the turn to the market 4. A privatizing state or a statist privatization? 5. Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing 6. Capital and countryside after structural adjustment 7. The end of Mar…
The Origin, Formation and Early History of the Chikunda of South Central Africa
Although historians have examined the process of pre-colonial political integration, little attention has been paid to the complementary patterns of ethnic and cultural assimilation. The Chikunda, who were initially slaves on the Zambezi prazos , provide an excellent example of this phenomenon. Over the course of several generations, captives from more than twenty ethnic groups submerged their historical, linguistic, and cultural differences to d…
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution. The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902
Madzi-Manga, Mhondoro and the use of oral traditions—a chapter in Barue religious and political history
This study seeks to redefine the ritual significance of the madzi-manga through the use of Barue oral traditions. It goes beyond a redefinition of the ritual to study the entire process of investiture, the role of the senior mhondoro in Barue society, and the exact nature of the relationship between the Barue and the Portuguese. It concludes that the madzi-manga represented neither a Catholic baptism nor a syncretic religious practice, as has bee…
The Portuguese Prazo System
Colonialismo e Feudalesimo: La Questione dei Prazos da Cora nel Mozambico Alla Fine del Secolo XIX
Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, the Zambesi Prazos, 1750-1902
The Prazeros as Transfrontiersmen: A Study in Social and Cultural Change
Fifteenth-century maritime expansion precipitated an unprecedented exchange of ideas and technology between Europe and the indigenous societies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.2 While scholars have focused on the broad political and economic impact of the overseas exploration, they have been less concerned with patterns of local interaction and the concomitant processes of social change. Recently social scientists have developed a number of an…
Zambia before 1890: Aspects of Pre-Colonial History
The Recent Political History of South Central Africa
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921
Resistance and Collaboration in Southern and Central Africa, c. 1850-1920
Social banditry in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Mozambique, 1894-1907: An Expression of Early Peasant Protest
It has been almost two decades since Hobsbawm first advanced the concept of social banditry and a decade since he fully developed this analytical construct in his seminal study of rural protest.2 The social bandits' organic relationship to the peasantry and their efforts to destroy the institutions that oppressed the rural populace, Hobsbawm argued, differentiated them from a variety of outlaws and brigands who indiscriminately preyed upon all se…
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambezi Valley, 1850-1921
The Political of Contemporary Africa
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: Anti-Colonial Activity in the Zambesi Valley, 1850-1921
Cotton Is the Mother of Poverty: Peasant Resistance to Forced Cotton Production in Mozambique, 1938-1961
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambesi Valley 1850-1921
A Socialist Legal System in the Making: Mozambique before and after Independence
Books/Livres
The Quest for an African Eldorado: Sofala, Southern Zambezia, and the Portuguese, 1500-1865
The Past Is Another Country: Rhodesia, 1890-1979
The Mozambique Cotton Cooperative: The Creation of a Grassroots Alternative to Forced Commodity Production
In 1957 a dozen northern Mozambicane living in the Makonde highlands organized the Mozambique African Voluntary Cotton Society. By 1959 membership had increased to almost three thousand and output per grower far exceeded per capita yields of neighboring peasant producers. A year later the colonial state outlawed the cooperative. Portuguese officials claimed that it had become a hotbed of subversive activity. Subsequent efforts by the leaders of t…
Mozambique
Books/Livres
Political science (55 works) · African history and culture studies (46 works) · History (35 works) · Geography (30 works) · Law (29 works) · Sociology (28 works) · History (26 works) · Colonialism (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (18 works)