Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 368 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
revised edition
Keywords:
Südost-Afrika Mosambik
;
Sansibar
;
Madagaskar
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Geschichte
;
Kolonie, portugiesisch
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Araber, Afrika
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Schiffahrt
;
Handelsroute
;
Brasilien
;
Frankreich
;
Goa
;
USA
;
Kap der Guten Hoffnung
Abstract:
In the unexplored history of tropical Africa no part has been more neglected that the area now mostly embraced in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique. In the period between the dwindling power of th Portuguese Empire in the seventeenth century and the explorations of Livingston and Kirk in the nineteenth, the region has been much neglected by English-speaking historians. This study fills the gap between the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars and the coming of Livingstone. It is of special importance to the history both of the Indian Ocean and of the territories to the north, west and south of Mozambique, and has been mainly based on original investigations in the little-studied Portuguese archives.This pioneer study of international rivalries in South East Africa, first published in 1942, has been virtually rewritten. It is concerned with the repercussions of that region in the history and politics of the powers of Europe and America, and shows what the black, brown and white men of South East Africa see of their past if they look across the ocean. It recalls the choice between Europe and Asia which geography and history have always presented.It traces how and why Europeans and Americans first had their attention directed to that shore. It shows how the fundamentals of the present international complications in East Africa and its waters are to be found in the period 1796-1856. in the same period there emerges the African dilemma whether to face towards the West or towards the East and if black, brown & white men can learn to face each other. (Klappentext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introductory -- The place of South-East Africa in Ocean strategy -- The Portuguese possessions -- The French and the East Coast -- The beginnings of British interest in East Africa -- East Africa becomes an object of British official policy -- Portuguese East Africa and the slave trade -- Portuguese East Africa emerges from obscurity -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 343-357"Originally published by Longmans Green in 1942 as No. 18 of the Imperial Studies Series of the Royal Empire Society" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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