Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa - Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674

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.

About the author

Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Ph.D. (2009) in History, Leiden University, is Post-doctoral fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. She has published on Iberian and Dutch Colonial History in several collections and journals.

Product details

• Authors: Filipa Ribeiro Da Silva
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2011
• EAN: 9789004201514
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20151-4
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous