The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 a documentary history

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Newitt, M. D. D., 1940- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2010.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39737305*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Portuguese in Morocco
  • The early voyages to West Africa
  • The Atlantic islands
  • The upper Guinea coast and Sierra Leone
  • Elmina and Benin
  • Discovery of the kingdom of Kongo
  • Angola, Paulo Dias and the founding of Luanda
  • The slave trade
  • Conflict in the kingdom of Kongo in the 1560s
  • Christianity in the Kongo
  • The Angolan wars
  • People and places.