Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 INTRODUCTION
	Geographic Location
	Climate
	Linkages to the Wider World
2 THE HISTORICAL SETTING
	The Earliest Times
	The Golden Age of Portuguese Maritime Exploration
	The Discovery and Settlement of Cape Verde
	Struggle to Control the African Coast
	Feudalism and Slavery
	The Slave Trade
	The Brazil-Cape Verde Connection
	The Final Collapse of Slavery in Cape Verde
	Cape Verde: The Colonial Inheritance
3 SOCIETY AND CULTURE
	The Demography of Cape Verde
	Sex Ratios
	Life Expectancy, Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase
	Urbanization
	Class and Social Structure
	Race and Racism in Cape Verde
	Race and Racism: Victims and Victimizers
	Other Social Groups in Cape Verdean and Guinean Society
	Badius
	Drought and Famine
	Maritime Trades
	Religion in Cape Verde
	The Origins of Crioulo Culture
	Crioulo Cultural Markers
	Women in Cape Verde
	Cultural Conclusions
4 RADICALS, SOLDIERS, AND DEMOCRATS: POLITICS IN CAPE VERDE
	The Struggle for Independence
	The War of National Liberation, 1963 to 1974
	Politics Under the PAIGC, 1975 to 1990
	Toward One Party, Two States, 1975 to 1980
	One Party, One State, 1980 to 1990
	Two Parties, One State, 1990-
5 PEASANTS, SOCIALISTS, AND CAPITALISTS: ECONOMICS IN CAPE VERDE
	From Subsistence to Consumption
	The Economics of Island Ecology
	The Macroeconomic Structure
	The Microeconomic Structure
	Other Contributors to the Economy
	The MpD Strategies for Economic Development, 1991-
6 CONCLUSION: CAPE VERDE AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
	Cultural Identity as \"Currency\"
	Cape Verdean Politics: From Populism to Pluralism
	Realistic Social and Economic Development
List of Acronyms
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Book and Author
Index