1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000838740203316

Autore

LOCATELLI, Goffredo

Titolo

Irpinagate : Ciriaco De Mita da Nusco a palazzo Chigi : un'inchiesta documentata e coraggiosa su una delle vicende più inquietanti degli ultimi anni, che ha come protagonista il presidente del Consiglio / Goffredo Locatelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Newton Compton, c1989

Descrizione fisica

239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Storia e cronache d'Italia ; 11

Disciplina

342.24508092

Soggetti

De Mita, Ciriaco - Inchieste

Collocazione

XV.1.B. 44(XV B 568)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Segue: Appendice



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957854403321

Autore

Miller Joseph Calder

Titolo

Way of death : merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 / / Joseph C. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c1988

ISBN

9786612622809

9780299115630

0299115631

9781282622807

1282622803

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxx, 770 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

382/.44/09469

Soggetti

Slave traders - Angola - History

Slave trade - Angola - History

Slave trade - Brazil - History

Slave trade - Portugal - History

Brazil Commerce History

Portugal Commercial policy History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables and Figures -- Translation of a Slave Inventory -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Part 1. Africa: Births and Deaths -- Chapter 1: The People of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 2: The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation -- Chapter 3: Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa -- Chapter 4: The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export -- Chapter 5: The Demography of Slaving -- Part 2. Traders: On the Way -- Chapter 6: Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector -- Chapter 7: A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 8: Casualties of Merchant Capital:



The Luso-Africans in Angola -- Chapter 9: The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda -- Chapter 10: Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians -- Chapter 11: Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death -- Part 3. Brazil: The Last Stop -- Chapter 12: Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s -- Chapter 13: Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780-1810 -- Chapter 14: Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century -- Part 4. Portugal: Merchants of Death -- Chapter 15: The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760 -- Chapter 16: "Freedom of Trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 -- Chapter 17: The Dry Well, 1772-1810 -- Chapter 18: Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810-1830 -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 19: The Economics of Mortality.

Appendix A: Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations -- Appendix B: Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World -- Appendix C: Principal Authors of Documentation Cited -- Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text -- Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback. "A landmark study in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. It will be an essential reference for anyone who writes on the trade, from whatever perspective, for years to come."