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Title
The Dutch and the Portuguese in West Africa: empire building and Atlantic system (1580-1674) |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/13867 |
Date
2009 |
Author(s)
Ribeiro da Silva, Filipa Isabel |
Abstract
This thesis examines in comparative perspective the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic empires in the 17th century, using West Africa as a case study. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I, we study how the conditions in the home countries influenced the building of the empires. Here we examine the goals of the Dutch and the Portuguese States and of the mercantile elites and their strategies for the building of their empires. In order to do so, we analyse the transfer of institutions, the labour migration and the formation of colonial societies. Part II deals mainly with the economic strategies of the Dutch and the Portuguese in their Atlantic Empires. Here, we examine the way these two European sea powers and their private entrepreneurs organized the trade on both an international and local level, as well as the way in which they structured their commercial and business networks, our final goal being a discussion of their struggle for the control of the supply and the consumption markets in the Atlantic. Further, we debate the role of the States, the State-sponsored companies and of the private traders on the building of the Dutch and the Portuguese Atlantic economies. |
Subject(s)
Institutions overseas; Labour migration; Colonial Societies; Transatlantic trade; West African trade; Slave trade; Business networks; Diaspora; Cross-cultural trade |
Language
en |
Publisher
Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University |
Type of publication
Doctoral thesis |
Format
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Repository
Leiden - Africanists at University of Leiden
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