Portuguese Style and Luso-African Identity
Subtitle: Precolonical Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780253215529
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Ethnic studies; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Architecture; Art; West Africa; Domestic; International Architecture - African; Residential; General; History - General
First sentence: During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Portugal established a trading presence along the Upper Guinea Coast, that part of the Atlantic coast extending from Senegal to Sierra Leone.