Dutch and Portuguese in western Africa : empires, merchants and the Atlantic system, 1580-1674
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Format : | Thèse ou mémoire |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Dutch and Portuguese in western Africa : empires, merchants and the Atlantic system, 1580-1674 / by Filipa Ribeiro da Silva |
Publié : |
Leiden, Boston (Mass.) :
Brill
, 2011 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XXVIII-384 p.) |
Collection : | The Atlantic world ; 22 |
Note de thèse : | Texte remanié de : Ph.D. dissertation : Histoire : Leiden university : 2009 |
Sujets : |
- Introduction
- Part I. Building Atlantic empires : the Dutch and the Portuguese models of settlement in Western Africa
- Building Institutions
- Sending people: labour migration and forced labour
- Shaping colonial societies
- Part II. Western Africa in the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic economies
- the concept of "Atlantic system" and the study of interactions between states, companies and private merchants
- Sailing in African waters: coastal areas and hinterland
- Struggling for the Atlantic : the inter-continental trade
- Doing business with western Africa : private investors, agency and commercial network
- Conclusion : new insights on Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic