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Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola's diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony's independence from Portugal in 1975. The mines were owned and operated by the Diamond Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed exclusive mining and labor concessions granted by the colonial government. Through these monopolies, the company became the most profitable enterprise in Portugal's African empire. After a tumultuous initial period, the company's mines and mining encampments experienced a remarkable degree of stability, in striking contr

Diamond industry and trade --- Diamond mines and mining --- Diamond miners --- Mineurs de diamants --- Diamants --- Colonisation --- Travail forcé --- Social conditions. --- Histoire --- Mines et extraction --- E-books --- Social conditions --- Miners --- Mines and mineral resources --- Jewelry trade --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Histoire. --- Diamantenbergbau. --- Diamond industry and trade. --- Diamond mines and mining. --- Gisements --- Conditions sociales --- Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. --- Angola. --- Portugal. --- Travail forcé

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"With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal's increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eus衩o, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal's empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players' transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire"--

Soccer --- Soccer players --- Athletes --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- History --- Portuguese-speaking Africa. --- Portugal. --- Lusophone Africa --- Portuguese Africa --- Portuguese-speaking Africa --- al-Burtughāl --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- Burtughāl --- Jumhūrī-i Purtughāl --- Jumhūrīyah al-Burtughālīyah --- Lusitania (Portugal) --- Portekiz --- Portekiz Cumhuriyeti --- Portogalia --- Portogallo --- Portugál Köztársaság --- Portugali --- Portugalia --- Portugalii︠a︡ --- Portugalská republika --- Portugalʹskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Portugalsko --- Portugiesische Republik --- Portuguese Republic --- Porutogaru --- Porutogaru Kyōwakoku --- P'orŭt'ugal --- P'orŭt'ugal Konghwaguk --- Purtughāl --- Putaoya --- Putaoya Gongheguo --- Repubblica Portoghese --- Republica Portugheză --- República Portuguesa --- Republika Portugalska --- République portugaise --- Sefarad --- Португальская Республика --- Португалия --- פורטוגל --- البرتغال --- الجمهورية البرتغالية --- برتغال --- جمهوري پرتغال --- جمهورية البرتغالية --- پرتغال --- ポルトガル --- ポルトガル共和国 --- 葡萄牙 --- 葡萄牙共和国 --- 포르투갈 --- 포르투갈공화국 --- Portugal --- Portugalii͡ --- Portugalʹskai͡a Respublika --- Republica Portughez --- Africa --- Africa, Portuguese-speaking

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"This book reconstructs the birth and development of the tourism sector in colonial Mozambique, from roughly 1890 to 1975, with a focus on the experiences of African laborers in the industry."--

Tourism --- History. --- Employees --- Social conditions. --- Mozambique --- History --- history of tourism in Africa, tourism in Mozambique, Tourism in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, colonial-era Africa, commercial hunting safaris in Africa, camera safari, Mozambique’s tourist industry.

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