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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Gaspar Corte-Real, Lancarote de Freitas, Goncalo Velho, Fernao de Noronha, Nuno Tristao, Afonso Goncalves Baldaia, Duarte Coelho Pereira, Goncalo de Sintra, Bartolomeu Perestrello, Antonio de Abreu, Fernao Gomes, Nicolau Coelho, Diogo Dias, Goncalo Coelho, Joao Alvares Fagundes, Manuel de Mederos, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Miguel Corte-Real, Antao Goncalves, Alvaro Martins, Fernao do Po, Pero Vaz de Caminha, Gil Eanes, Pedro Mascarenhas, Antonio Fernandes, Diogo Veloso, Lourenco Marques, Diogo Rodrigues, Dinis Dias, Pero Escobar, Tristao Vaz Teixe...
Discusses the travels of Vasco da Gama and other Portugese explorers who helped establish an extensive empire for their country.
This groundbreaking study tells the story of the highly organised, international legal court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century. The case, presented before the Vatican, called for the freedom of all enslaved people and other oppressed groups. This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition debate is generally believed to have been dominated by white Europeans in the eighteenth century. By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the first book of its kind, Lingna Nafafé underscores the exceptionally complex nature of the African liberation struggle, and demystifies the common knowledge and accepted wisdom surrounding African slavery.
Discusses the travels of Vasco da Gama and other Portugese explorers who helped establish an extensive empire for their country.
Presents the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama focusing on a blend of the facts and legends around him.
Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis of key issues in the history of urban planning and discussing the key challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in these countries. The book argues that urban planning is a non-neutral and non-value free kind of public action and, therefore, ideology, planning theories, urban models and the ideological role urban planning has played are some of the key issues addressed. For that reason, th...
In the fifteenth century, the world beyond Europe began to emerge from myth and legend, and it was the Portuguese who led the way. They founded an empire that stretched from China to Brazil, and the peak of their achievement was Vasco da Gama's discovery of a sea route to India. Still today, landmarks, coastlines and currents around the world bear Portuguese names, and the oceans of the world are one vast watery grave for Portuguese seamen. For those who sailed beyond the known world life was harsh beyond measure. Yet the discoverers were not lured only by gold, precious stones and spices - they were driven to colonise, to enslave, to bring their religion to the unconverted. Reconstructing journeys from contemporary logs and papers, this absorbing and wonderfully vivid account brings to life the captains driving their small ships, the ordinary seamen and the far-off, not always friendly traders they met.