"Portuguese" style and Luso-African identity : precolonial Senegambia, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / / Peter Mark.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Mark, Peter, 1948-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 208 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of 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.