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Moorings Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa
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Title
Moorings [electronic resource] : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / Josiah Blackmore.
ISBN
081666630X
9780816666300
0816648328 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816648336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816648320 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816648337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 203 p. :) : ill. ;
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive History Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 12, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Into Africa
Encountering the African
Some medieval formulations
The African in-between
Expansion and the contours of Africa
Routes, histories, and chronicles
Strangeness under the imperial sun
Africa and the imagination
The monster of melancholy
Adamastor melancholicus
The masculine ship
The devil's map.
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