Fortifications, Post-Colonialism and Power Sarmento Joao
Fortifications, Post-Colonialism and Power Sarmento Joao For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America. Forts articulated…
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Fortifications, Post-Colonialism and Power Sarmento Joao
For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America. Forts articulated the colonial and the metropolitan, and functioned as nodes in a mercantile empire, shaping early forms of capitalism, transforming the global political economy, and generating a flood of images and ideas on an unprecedented scale. At a macro scale, mapping this network of power reveals a gigantic territorial and colonial project.
Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence, but also timely reminders that buildings never last forever, testimonies of the fluidity of the material world. Today, they can be understood as active material legacies of empire that represent promises, dangers and possibilities. Illustrated by case studies in Morocco, Cape Verde, SAo Tome and PrA-ncipe and Kenya, this book examines how this global but
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