Verfasst von:	Alfagali, Crislayne [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Blacksmiths of Ilamba
Titelzusatz:	a social history of labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th century)
Verf.angabe:	Crislayne Alfagali
Verlagsort:	Berlin ; Boston
Verlag:	De Gruyter Oldenbourg
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	X, 386 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Format:	23 cm x 15.5 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Work in global and historical perspective ; volume 15
ISBN:	978-3-11-078651-4
	3-11-078651-6
Abstract:	This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the foundry and the important role they played in developing the form of production employed there. By emphasizing continuities with African technology and the quality of the iron produced, it counters interpretations of the project as an example of the failure of the Portuguese Enlightenment. The analysis demonstrates the circulation of knowledge about iron production, thus revitalizing debates that have posited knowledge transmission as unidirectional. It also highlights the relationship between local political leaders and the colonial government, in addition to elucidating the processes by which workers were organized
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Schlagwörter:	(g)Angola    / (s)Eisenverarbeitung    / (s)Arbeitsbedingungen    / (s)Arbeitsbeziehungen    / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
Sach-SW:	African history
	Afrikanische Geschichte
	HISTORY / Africa / Central
	HISTORY / Africa / General
	HISTORY / General
	HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
	HISTORY / Modern / General
	HISTORY / Social History
	Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
	Social & cultural history
	Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Geograph. SW:	Angola
	Angola
Zeit-SW:	18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
	c 1700 to c 1800
K10plus-PPN:	1801420203
Verknüpfungen:	→ Übergeordnete Aufnahme