Portugal and Africa
by David Birmingham
"This book opens with an account of the great explorers of the fifteenth century and looks at the imperial tradition which led Europeans to seek goldmines on both shores of Africa, to plant sugar and cotton on Africa's islands, and to carry away Africa's field-hands as slaves for the new colonies of the Americas."--BOOK JACKET. "Although Portugal lost much of West Africa and South Africa to the Dutch in the seventeenth century, it retained important trading harbours in Central Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
"In the 1960s the 'African Revolution' reached the frontiers of both Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique and long wars of liberation broke out which eventually drove Portugal to abandon its political hold on Africa. In 'Lusophone' Africa, where people spoke Portuguese, urban lifestyles remained quite different from those of 'Anglophone' Africa, linked to London, or 'Francophone' Africa, which preserved French colonial traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
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Portugal and Africa
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Originally published: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"In the year 1488 Bartholomew Dias became the first European mariner to sail the entire length of the Atlantic and reach the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa."
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