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SILVA GONÇALVES, Nuno da, Os Jesuítas e a Missão de Cabo Verde (1604-1642), Lisbon, Brotéria, 1996, 450 pp., 972 9076 09 X

1988; Brill; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/157006688x00072

1570-0666

P. E. H. Hair,

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

REVIEWS SILVA GONÇALVES, Nuno da, Os Jesuítas e a Missão de Cabo Verde (1604- 1642), Lisbon, Brotéria, 1996, 450 pp., 972 9076 09 X Whereas the early Portuguese Jesuit missions to America and Asia had notable successes, hence generating vast modem historiographies, the missions to the other new world, that of Black Africa, were failures, at least relatively, and have been little studied or written about. The mission to East Africa in the 1560s collapsed in a colonial disaster. The mission to Angola, begun in the 1570s, struggled on for many decades and did give pioneering attention to the local