Format:
1 online resource (412 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004206908
Series Statement:
The Atlantic World Ser. v.22
Content:
By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Diagrams, Graphs, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Chapter One Introduction -- 1. Institutions -- 2. Labor migration and colonial societies -- 3. Intra- and Inter-continental trade in, to and via Western Africa -- 4. Private investment, agency and networks -- 5. Source Material -- 6. Structure -- Part I Building Atlantic Empires: The Dutch and the Portuguese Models of Settlement in Western Africa -- Chapter Two Building Institutions -- 1. Administrative institutions -- 2. Military institutions -- 3. Judicial institutions -- 4. Commercial and fiscal institutions -- Chapter Three Sending People: Labor Migration and Forced Labor -- 1. European migrants -- 1.1. Free migrants -- 1.2. Forced migrants -- 2. Forced African migrants: Enslaved and manumitted Africans -- 3. Locally recruited personnel -- 3.1. Free Africans -- 3.2. Mixed descent workers and European settlers -- 4. European labor markets and Western Africa -- 5. Policies of settlement and Western Africa -- Chapter Four Shaping Colonial Societies -- 1. Europeans -- 2. Africans -- 2.1. Enslaved and manumitted Africans -- 2.2 Free Africans -- 3. Mixed descent population -- 4. Impact of social organization in the building of the Atlantic empires -- Part Two 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 -- Chapter Five Sailing in African Waters: Coastal Areas and Hinterland -- 1. Routes -- 2. Coastal trade, inter-racial relationships and settlement -- 3. Trading practices -- 4. Western African supply markets -- 5. Western African consumption markets -- Chapter Six Struggling for the Atlantic: The Inter-Continental Trade -- 1. Routes -- 2. Shipping -- 3. Supply markets.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004201514
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004201514
Language:
English
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=737689
