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Author Mark, Peter, 1948-

Title "Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity [electronic resource] : precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / Peter Mark.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 208 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
Contents The evolution of "Portuguese" identity: Luso-Africans on the upper Guinea coast from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture in the Gambia-Geba region and the articulation of Luso-African ethnicity -- Reconstructing West African architectural history: images of seventeenth-century "Portuguese"-style houses in Brazil -- "The people there are beginning to take on English manners": mixed manners in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Gambia -- Senegambia from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century -- Casamance architecture from 1850 to the establishment of colonial administration.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Senegambia.
Architecture, Portuguese colonial -- Senegambia.
Vernacular architecture -- Senegambia.
Miscegenation -- Senegambia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0253341558 (alk. paper)

 
    
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