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Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power - Ruins and Imperial Legacies (Paperback)
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Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power - Ruins and Imperial Legacies (Paperback)
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For more than 500 years, the Portuguese built or adapted
fortifications along the coasts of Africa, Asia and South America.
At a macro scale, mapping this network of power reveals a gigantic
territorial and colonial project. 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. Today, they can be understood as active
material legacies of empire that represent promises, dangers and
possibilities. 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.
Illustrated by case studies in Morocco, Cape Verde, SAGBPo Tome and
PrA ncipe and Kenya, this book examines how this global but
chameleonic network of forts can offer valuable insights into both
the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into
the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the
postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.
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