Introduction -- Part One: The postwar years -- Becoming an attractive colony -- Triangulating colonial modernization -- Part Two: The decade of development -- (Re)framing postcolonial development -- Energizing the economic miracle -- Tapping the riches of a "backward" region -- Part Three: The...

Introduction -- The regional setting -- The Atlantic connection: Little Popo & the rise of Afro-European trade, c. 1600-1702 -- The era of the warrior kings: 1702 to 1772 -- The era of the traders: 1772 to c.1807 -- Disintigration & reconstitution: political developments, 1820s to 1870s -- From...

Alluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of demanding conditions. From the origin of the colonial period until its end in 1975, the tourism...