Paulo Alexandre Vasconcelos

A Paper Empire: Late-Colonial Development and Its Limits in Angola, 1955–74

This article examines the Companhia de Celulose do Ultramar Português (CCUP), founded in Angola in 1955, as a case study of late Portuguese colonial developmentalism. It argues that the company is best understood within the wider infrastructural formation that sustained it, linking eucalyptus plantations, railway tra...