Professor in History at the University of Millersville, PA, USA. Numerous important books and articles on the history of Angola and especially on the Kingdom of Kongo, including:

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Selected Bibliography:

–   The Kingdom of Kongo. Civil War and Transition 1641–1718. Madison 1983;

–   “Demography and History in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1550–1750”, Journal of African History 18, 1977, pp. 507-30;

–   “New Light on Cavazzi’s Seventeenth Century Description of Kongo”, History in Africa 6, 1979, pp. 253-64;

–   “The Slave Trade in Eighteenth Century Angola: Effects on Demographic Structures”, Canadian Journal of African Studies 14 (3), 1980, pp. 417-428;

–   “Early Kongo–Portuguese Relations: A New Interpretation”, History in Africa 8, 1981, pp. 183-204;

–   “Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure”, in: Claire Robertson and Martin Klein (eds.), Women and Slavery in Africa. Madison 1983, pp. 39-48;

–   “The Development of an African Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1483–1750”, Journal of African History 25, 1984, pp. 147-67;

–   “The Art of War in Angola, 1575–1680”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 30, 1988, pp. 360-78;

–   “Ideology and Political Power in Central Africa: The Case of Queen Njinga (1624–1663)”, Journal of African History 32, 1991, pp. 25-40;

–   Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. New York and London 1992, ²1998;

–   “The Role of Africans in the Atlantic Economy: Modern Africanist Historiography and the World System Paradigm”, Colonial Latin American Historical Review 3, 1994, pp. 125-40;

–   The Kongolese Saint Anthony. Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706. Cambridge 1998;

–   São Salvador: A Cidade sagrada do Kongo, Fontes & Estudos 4-5, 1998-1999, pp. 135-162.

–   Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800. University College of London Press/Routledge 1999;

–   “Mbanza Kongo/São Salvador: Kongo’s Holy City”, in: David Anderson and Richard Rathbone (eds.) Africa’s Urban Past. London and Portsmouth, NH 2000, pp. 67-84;

–   “Documentos Escritos e Tradição Oral num Reino alfabetizado: Tradições Orais Escritas no Congo, 1580–1910”, in: Construindo o passado angolano: as fontes e a sua interpretação. Actas do II Seminário internacional sobre a história de Angola, Luanda, 4 a 9 de Agosto de 1997. Lisbon 2000, pp. 445–465.