Confronting Leviathan: Mozambique Since Independence - Hardcover

Young, Tom; Hall, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850651159 ISBN 13: 9781850651154

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This volume has been written at a time when Mozambique is coming to the end of its second decade of independence and there are signs that the debilitating South African-backed rural insurgency may at last be on the wane. The bulk of the literature on the country has been concerned to promote causes rather than face realities. However, the much greater openness of Mozambican society and the Mozambican government in recent years, as well as the appearance of new research, makes it possible to attempt a reinterpretation of events. This analysis of the post-independence period sets out to challenge much of the conventional wisdom. In particular, it suggests that the significance of the "liberated zones" was greatly exaggerated by Frelimo and its sympathizers in order to give the regime ideological respectability.

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Review

"This excellent book will provide an important contribution to understanding the last twenty years in Mozambique. It is thoughtful and reflective as well as being soundly researched." -- Malyn Newitt, author of A History of Mozambique (1995)

About the Author

Margaret Hall is in the Research and Analysis Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. Tom Young is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850651159
• ISBN 13: 9781850651154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274