1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911074794403321

Titolo

Westfeldt Bros. January 31, 1956. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1956

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (5 pages)

Collana

House report / 84th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 1727

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 11902]

Altri autori (Persone)

LaneThomas Joseph <1898-1994> (Democrat (MA))

Soggetti

Claims

Customs appraisal

Tariff

Tax protests and appeals

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911093670303321

Autore

Mark Peter <1948->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

9786612071874

9781282071872

1282071874

9780253107541

0253107547

9780253109552

0253109558

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

728.0966

728/.37/08969066

Soggetti

Architecture, Domestic - Senegambia

Architecture, Portuguese colonial - Senegambia

Vernacular architecture - Senegambia

Miscegenation (Racist theory) - Senegambia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter



Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity.  Mark documents how the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and traders who settled in the Senegambia region.  What came to be known as 'Portuguese' style symbolized the wealth and power of Luso-Africans, who identified themselves as 'Portuguese' so they could be