Author : Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004201513
By 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 : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139491296
The 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 : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004348034
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500–1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries.
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107127157
An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.
Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107061172
Argues 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 : D. Birmingham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1349274909
The 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.
Author : O. F. Mentzel
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 9780958452298
Author : Willem Bosman
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 1705
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Twenty-two letters by merchants of the Dutch West India Company; the first twenty are by Willem Bosman, and the last two by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek. A small part of letter 18 and a substantial portion of letter 19 deals with the slave-trade; also some scattered notices about this subject elsewhere in the text
Author : Mariana Candido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107328381
This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
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