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More than fifty years have passed since Charles Boxer wrote his major works on the Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic and attributed the successful takeover of North-eastern Brazil, Angola, São Tomé and the Gold Coast forts by the WIC to the superior naval power of the Dutch.This book reexamines the systems of settlement and trade of these States and their subjects in Western Africa and the Atlantic, offering a fresh insight on discussions about the success and failure of Dutch and Portuguese States, Companies and Merchants in the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Price: $181.00
Pages: 384
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
27 July 2011
ISBN: 9789004201514
Format: Hardcover
[...] the clarity of the book's narrative enables the reader to gain a bird's eye view of a highly complex issue, namely the reasons for the rise and fall of "maritime empires" and their "monopolies, and how they interrelated over time.
Philip J. Havik, Anais de História de Além-Mar, No. 12, 2011, pp. 388-398
Philip J. Havik, Anais de História de Além-Mar, No. 12, 2011, pp. 388-398
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.