“Little Storybook Town”
Space and Labor in a Company Town in Colonial Angola
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20041059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Ball (0000-0001-6056-9950, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 91-110 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Company Towns (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137024671_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2427676257 |
| ISBN | 9781137024671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 12 |
Urban colonization in Angola grew out of the Berlin Conference (1884–5) and the expectation that colonizing powers demonstrate effective occupation in order to receive international—European— recognition for their territorial claims. In response, Portuguese elites rediscovered their long-neglected coastal settlements along the Angolan and Mozambican littorals and began to make substantial investments in infrastructure, including railways, ports, and administrative and military buildings. On Angolas south-central coast, the frontier town of Catumbela, long known as an embarkation point for slaves headed to the New World, developed as a result of a boom in rubber exports. Portuguese and Luso-African traders established trading houses and rebuilt the small town to reflect a Portuguese aesthetic. With the decline in world rubber prices by 1910 and the exhaustion of elephant herds in the Angolan interior, the local trading economy declined while a new sugar industry developed on the plains surrounding Catumbela, based on irrigation from the Catumbela River and favorable tariff access to the Portuguese market.KeywordsTown CenterCompany EstatePassagens ParaPortuguese ColonialCompany TownThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Archaeology · Boom · Business · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Human settlement · International trade · Order (exchange) · Political science · Portuguese · Tariff · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Finance · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Verandahs of Power
Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-Economy
Tradition in the Service of ModernityArchitecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900–1930
The African City
Beyond “Culture”
Between Fixity and Fantasy
The Nature of the Company Town
Intonations
For the City Yet to Come
Slavery in coastal southern Angola, 1875-1913
Company town, company estate
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |