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Author: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9004201513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Author: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9004206906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than fifty years have passed since Charles Boxer wrote his major works on the Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic and attributed the successful takeover of North-eastern Brazil, Angola, São Tomé and the Gold Coast forts by the WIC to the superior naval power of the Dutch.This book reexamines the systems of settlement and trade of these States and their subjects in Western Africa and the Atlantic, offering a fresh insight on discussions about the success and failure of Dutch and Portuguese States, Companies and Merchants in the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Author: Malyn Newitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139491296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified.
Author: John K. Thornton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1107127157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.
Author: O. F. Mentzel
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780958452298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pieter C. Emmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1108428371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.
Author: Michiel van Groesen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107061172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.
Author: Koen Bostoen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1108474187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Author: D. Birmingham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1349274909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the twentieth century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernisation and the Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but the peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired traditions, eating Portuguese dishes, writing Portuguese poetry and studying in Portuguese universities.
