Download or read book A Scholar for All Seasons: Jill Dias written by Joseph C. Miller and published by Baywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents studies that range from slave trade in Benguela to European perceptions of colonial urban Luanda, nineteenth-century Portuguese colonial expeditions into the African interior, rubber colonialism in Garenganze/Katanga--Bié--Benguela, rubber trade in the Kongo, the dynamics of go-between societies in Portuguese Guinea, the rule of the Mozambique Company, urbanism in Lourenço Marques, the Angolan Declaration of Independence, UPA politics in northern Angola, and civilian casualties in Angola in 1975-2008. The featured contributions are by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Mariana P. Candido, David Birmingham, Beatrix Heintze, John K. Thornton, Jean-Luc Vellut, Jelmer Vos, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Philip J. Havik, Rosemary E. Galli, Jeanne Marie Penvenne, Douglas L. Wheeler, Inge Brinkman, and Linda M. Heywood.