The Kongo Kingdom [electronic resource] : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity / edited by Koen Bostoen, Inge Brinkman.

Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history / Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman
Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom
The origins of Kongo: a revised vision / John K. Thornton
A central African kingdom: Kongo in 1480 / Wyatt MacGaffey
Seventeenth-century Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo / Koen Bostoen and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Soyo and Kongo: the undoing of the Kingdom's centralisation / John K. Thornton
The Eastern Border of the Kongo kingdom: on relocating the Hydronym Barbela / Igor Matonda
Part II. Kongo's Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World
From image to grave and back: multidisciplinary inquiries into Kongo Christian visual culture / Cecile Fromont
Ceramics decorated with woven motifs: an archaeological Kongo kingdom identifier? / Els Cranshof, Nicolas Nikis and Pierre de Maret
From America to Africa: how Kongo nobility made smoking pipes their own / Bernard Clist
'To make book': a conceptual historical approach to Kongo book cultures (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) / Inge Brinkman and Koen Bostoen
Kongo cosmopolitans in the nineteenth century / Jelmer Vos
The making of Kongo identity in the American diaspora: a case study from Brazil / Linda Heywood.