Cover of Portugal and Africa

Portugal and Africa

by David Birmingham

2004 203 pages eng

"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…

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