Dutch And Portuguese In Western Africa

Author : Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004206906
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa written by Filipa Ribeiro da Silva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871697974
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africans and Europeans in West Africa written by Harvey M. Feinberg and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491296
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 written by Malyn Newitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521159142
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 written by Malyn Newitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845450310
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dutch Slave Trade, 1500-1850 written by and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch historiography has traditionally concentrated on colonial successes in Asia. However, the Dutch were also active in West Africa, Brazil, New Netherland (the present state of New York) and in the Caribbean. In Africa they took part in the gold and ivory trade and finally also in the slave trade, something not widely known outside academic circles. P.C. Emmer, one of the most prominent experts in this field, tells the story of Dutch involvement in the trade from the beginning of the 17th century–much later than the Spaniards and the Portuguese–and goes on to show how the trade shifted from Brazil to the Caribbean. He explains how the purchase of slaves was organized in Africa, records their dramatic transport across the Atlantic, and examines how the sales machinery worked. Drawing on his prolonged study of the Dutch Atlantic slave trade, he presents his subject clearly and soberly, although never forgetting the tragedy hidden behind the numbers – the dark side of the Dutch Golden Age -, which makes this study not only informative but also very readable.

Author : Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871697974
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africans and Europeans in West Africa written by Harvey M. Feinberg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Birmingham
Publisher : Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portugal and Africa written by David Birmingham and published by Ohio University Center for International Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots. The Portuguese established sugar plantations on Africa's offshore islands and built factories on the beaches in the fifteenth century, but Professor Birmingham explains that their focus shifted to regions where medieval African miners had discovered deep seams of gold ore. Later, when even richer mines and more fertile lands were captured from the native peoples of the Americas, Portuguese ships became the great "slave bridge" that spanned the Atlantic and ferried captive black workers to the colonies of the New World. Portugal lost its major mining claims in Africa to the British, but it left a legacy of a new pattern of white settler colonization based on American-style plantations. The blending of European and African cultures and races led to the emergence of elite communities, from the Kongo princes of the seventeenth century to the creolized generals of today. Portugal and Africa focuses extensively on Angola to cast new light on the final years of the colonial experience and its traumatic legacies. After 1950, Portuguese Angola became one of the most dynamic of Africa's colonies and the largest white colony outside of Algeria or South Africa. Angola's eventual collapse in a series of wars had devastating results. Birmingham brings the terror and devastation to life in a series of powerful chapters that are a model of disciplined scholarship and informed passion.

Author : Georg Tams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visit to the Portuguese Possessions in South-Western Africa written by Georg Tams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Leighton Wilson
Publisher : New York : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Africa written by John Leighton Wilson and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1856 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107061172
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Dutch Brazil written by Michiel van Groesen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.