Dutch and Portuguese in western Africa : empires, merchants and the Atlantic system, 1580-1674

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Silva Filipa Ribeiro da (Auteur)
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