„Magángyarmatosítók” Mozambik portugál múltjában
„Private colonizers” in Mozambique’s Portuguese past

Summary/Abstract: One of the Myths of Portuguese History is how this poor Iberian country with only „historical attitude and behaviour”, was able to create an enormous African Empire during the „Scramble for Africa” in the last quarter of th 19th century. In contrast to this, the present article aimes to opt for an opposite thesis and different arguments: an „economical approach” of the Portuguese Imperialism in Africa through some examples in North and Central Mozambique. The „ad hoc character” of the Portuguese presence in the Zambezi river valley demonstrates the vulnerability of the Metropole and the very relative success of the territorial organization of the colony in the hands of „private” capitalist companies.

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