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SUMMARY:The Angolan Coffee Frontier\, 1820-1920 - Jelmer Vos (University o
 f Glasgow)
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CONTACT:Gareth Austin
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the exploitation of Angola’s natural cof
 fee reserves by African and foreign planters from the nineteenth through t
 he early twentieth century\, before a new generation of European settlers 
 began to colonize the Angolan montane forest in the interwar period. It sp
 ecifically studies the way farmers in northern Angola developed the forest
  environment for commercial agriculture and\, by doing so\, radically tran
 sformed the local coffee landscape. It pays attention to conditions this e
 nvironment imposed on coffee planting in Angola\, and to the cultivation m
 ethods of small African farmers\, who from the 1850s became the main drive
 rs of the Angolan ‘coffee frontier’. It concludes that smallholding wa
 s generally more competitive than estate farming in this early period\, sh
 owing that the colonial government’s endorsement of settler expansion af
 ter World War 1 was a political choice rooted in nationalist and racialist
  discourse instead of economic evidence.
LOCATION:King's College (the Audit Room)
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