The Portuguese In West Africa 1415 1670

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139491297

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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 by Malyn Newitt Pdf

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 : M. D. D. Newitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 1107209323

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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 by M. D. D. Newitt Pdf

"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 : Robin Law
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445525

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Ouidah by Robin Law Pdf

Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the Slave Coast. This is the first detailed study of the town’s history and of its role in the Atlantic slave trade. Ouidah is a well-documented case study of precolonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular of the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time.

Author : Christopher R. DeCorse
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0718502477

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West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade by Christopher R. DeCorse Pdf

This volume surveys archaeological data from West Africa, examining sites from the Senegambia to the Cameroon. The focus is on the archaeological record of the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trave, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. While historians have examined many aspects of this period, the written record provides only limited insight into the history and development of many areas. Archaeology has the potential to provide unique information not accessible through documentary records or oral traditions. Thus, the material record offers the most valuable means of evaluating both change and continuity in African societies over the past 500 years.The geographical and topical scope of this volume is extremely timely. Historical archaeology, particularly aspects dealing with European interactions with indigenous populations, is an area that has received increasing attention over the past decade. There has also been a growing interest in studies of Africa and the African diaspora. This volume, the first to draw together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa, will be an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuitites in the Americas.>

Author : A. Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521231503

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A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 by A. Saunders Pdf

This book is a detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Mariana Candido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107328389

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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World by Mariana Candido Pdf

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 : Peter Mark,José da Silva Horta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107667464

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The Forgotten Diaspora by Peter Mark,José da Silva Horta Pdf

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780191629105

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The Book of Marvels and Travels by John Mandeville Pdf

'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince Prester John. There are giants and pygmies, cannibals and Amazons, headless humans and people with a single foot so huge it can shield them from the sun . Forceful and opinionated, the narrator is by turns bossy, learned, playful, and moralizing, with an endless curiosity about different cultures. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary travel narrative that offers some revealing and unexpected attitudes towards other races and religions. It was immensely popular, and numbered among its readers Chaucer, Columbus, and Thomas More. Anthony Bale's new translation emphasizes the book's readability, and his introduction and notes bring us closer to Mandeville's medieval worldview. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Bengt Sundkler,Christopher Steed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052158342X

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A History of the Church in Africa by Bengt Sundkler,Christopher Steed Pdf

Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0801859557

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The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808 by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf

By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, historian A.J.R. Russell-Wood paints a broad portrait of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires--its birth, apotheosis, and decline. Russell-Wood shows unique insight into the diversity and balance between competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion, spanning four centuries's events on four different continents. 84 illustrations.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137080592

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Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies by NA NA Pdf

In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today. Columbus's four Atlantic voyages (1492-1504) helped link Africa, Europe, and the Americas in a conflicted economic and cultural symbiosis. These carefully selected documents describe the voyages and their immediate impact on Europe and the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Symcox and Sullivan's engaging introduction presents Columbus as neither hero nor villain, but as a significant historical actor who improvised responses to a changed world. Document headnotes provide context for understanding Columbus's voyages within the broader context of fifteenth-century Europe and the policies of the Spanish crown. Maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography invite students to analyze and interpret the documents.

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000385646

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A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf

Author : Hans Staden
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822389293

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Hans Staden's True History by Hans Staden Pdf

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the Portuguese. Staden’s True History, first published in Germany in 1557, tells the story of his nine months among the Tupi Indians. It is a dramatic first-person account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape. Staden’s narrative is a foundational text in the history and European “discovery” of Brazil, the earliest European account of the Tupi Indians, and a touchstone in the debates on cannibalism. Yet the last English-language edition of Staden’s True History was published in 1929. This new critical edition features a new translation from the sixteenth-century German along with annotations and an extensive introduction. It restores to the text the fifty-six woodcut illustrations of Staden’s adventures and final escape that appeared in the original 1557 edition. In the introduction, Neil L. Whitehead discusses the circumstances surrounding the production of Staden’s narrative and its ethnological significance, paying particular attention to contemporary debates about cannibalism. Whitehead illuminates the value of Staden’s True History as an eyewitness account of Tupi society on the eve before its collapse, of ritual war and sacrifice among Native peoples, and of colonial rivalries in the region of Rio de Janeiro. He chronicles the history of the various editions of Staden’s narrative and their reception from 1557 until the present. Staden’s work continues to engage a wide range of readers, not least within Brazil, where it has recently been the subject of two films and a graphic novel.

Author : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176263

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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva Pdf

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

Author : David Northrup
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624666414

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Seven Myths of Africa in World History by David Northrup Pdf

"Northrup's highly accessible book breaks through the most common barriers that readers encounter in studying African history. Each chapter takes on a common myth about Africa and explains both the sources of the myth and the research that debunks it. These provocative chapters will promote lively discussions among readers while deepening their understanding of African and world history. The book is strengthened by its incorporation of actors and issues representing the African diaspora and African Americans in particular." —Rebecca Shumway, College of Charleston