Portugal and Africa
The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it
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Also by David Birmingham THE PORTUGUESE CONQUEST OF ANGOLA TRADE AND CONFLICT IN ANGOLA PRE-COLONIAL AFRICAN TRADE (co-edited with Richard Gray) CENTRAL AFRICA TO 1870 HISTORY OF CENTRAL AFRICA (co-edited with Phyllis M. Martin) Vol. 1: The Early Years to 1870 Vol. 2: The Colonial Era, 1870-1960 Vol. 3: The Contemporary Years since 1960 KWAME NKRUMAH FRONTLINE NATIONALISM IN ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE A CONCISE HISTORY OF PORTUGAL L'EUROPE ET L' AFRIQUE DE 1914 A 1970 (with Muriel Chamberlain and Chantal Metzger) SWITZERLAND: A Village History (forthcoming) THE ATLANTIC EMPIRES, 1400-1600 (forthcoming)
Portugal and Africa David Birmingham
Professor of Modern History University of Kent at Canterbury
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Contents Preface
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1 Portugal's Impact on Africa
1
2 Colonisers and the Mrican Iron Age
12
3 The Regimento da Mina
25
4 Early African Trade in Angola
33
5 Traditions, Migrations and Cannibalism
44
6 Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom
51
7 Angola and the Church
63
8 Joseph Miller's Way of Death
82
9 The Coffee Barons of Cazengo
94
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Britain and the Ultimatum of 1890
110
11
Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama's Experience
122
12 Youth and War in Angola
133
13 The Twenty-Seventh of May
142
14 Angola Revisited
155
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174
Black and White in Angolan Fiction
Notes
186
Index
194
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Preface For the past six centuries the south Atlantic Ocean has been open to long-distance navigation and regular links have been
