Portugal’s ‘Weekend at the coast’: Fort Jesus and empire celebration in Kenya

This chapter analyses how these ‘global’ celebrations collided with the British colonial experience and evolution in 1950s Kenya, and traces the convergence of two imperial trajectories at a particular colonial building in Mombasa, Kenya. On the one hand, the British were trying to order the colony,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarmento, João Carlos Vicente (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/72457
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/72457