Le Kongo (1350-1880): Plus qu'un royaume, un très vaste empire au coeur de l'Afrique centrale
Le Kongo (1350-1880): Plus qu'un royaume, un très vaste empire au coeur de l'Afrique centrale

Author: Amadou Ba

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781777742836

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L'empire du Kongo est l'un des anciens États que l'Afrique médiévale ait connus. C'est un gigantesque territoire qui s'étendait de la République actuelle de l'Angola, où se trouvait sa capitale, Mbanza Kongo (devenue San Salvador sous la domination portugaise), à la République Démocratique du Kongo sans oublier le Congo Brazzaville et une bonne partie du Gabon. L'empire du Kongo couvrait une superficie égale à celle de l'Europe de l'Ouest actuelle. Par méconnaissance, ignorance, volonté de falsification ou de mépris, les Portugais et leurs successeurs européens dans cet espace, ont désigné cet immense empire comme un simple royaume en Afrique centrale. Grace à la combinaison de diverses sources écrites, orales et archéologiques, ce livre apporte un cinglant démenti à ce mensonge historique et présente les aspects les plus marquants de l'empire du Kongo en mettant l'accent sur l'économie, la politique, la vie sociale et culturelle mais aussi les relations avec le monde extérieur notamment avec le royaume du Portugal, première puissance mondiale au 15e siècle. Un des objectifs majeurs de ce livre est de déconstruire certains stéréotypes et préjugés négatifs qui persistent encore aujourd'hui sur l'Afrique, les Africains et donc sur ce glorieux empire du Kongo et ses habitants.

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913

Author: Jelmer Vos

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780299306205

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This richly documented account of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the Kongo realm is told from the perspective of the kingdom's inhabitants. Jelmer Vos shows that both Africans and Europeans were able to forward differing social, political, and economic agendas as Kongo's sacred city of São Salvador became a vital site for the expansion of European imperialism in Central Africa. Kongo people, he argues, built on the kingdom's long familiarity with Atlantic commerce and cultures to become avid intermediaries in a new system of colonial trade and mission schools. Vos underlines that Kongo's incorporation in the European state system also had tragic consequences, including the undermining of local African structures of authority—on which the colonial system actually depended. Kongo in the Age of Empire carefully documents the involvement of Kongo's royal court in the exercise of Portuguese rule in northern Angola and the ways that Kongo citizens experienced colonial rule as an increasingly illegitimate extension of royal power.

Canals and Inland Navigation
Canals and Inland Navigation

Author: Gerald Crompton

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new introduction by the volume editor. Individually they will form an essential foundation to the study of the history of a mode of transport; together they will make an incomparable library of the best modern research in the field.

Goa and Portugal
Goa and Portugal

Author: Charles J. Borges

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9788170226598

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Collection of twenty-one papers presented at an international symposium on the theme "cultural relations between Portugal and Goa" at the University of Cologne, 29 May-2 June 1996; chiefly covers the 16th-18th centuries.

The Tender Soldier
The Tender Soldier

Author: Vanessa M. Gezari

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1439177392

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Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.

The Mycenaeans
The Mycenaeans

Author: Lord William Taylour

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780500275863

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Studies the distinctive culture of the Mycenaeans, examining the architectural, engineering and artistic achievements of this civilization which dominated the pre-Classical era of Greek history.