Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74
The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1039-1067, November 2025.Abstract Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of worker living standards in Angola and Mozambique, contextualized within a broader comparison of colonial African empires.
Leo Dolan
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Reconsidering Economic Relations and Political Citizenship in the New Iberia of the New Europe: Some Lessons from the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Accession of Portugal and Spain to the European Union. CES Working Paper, no. 94, 2003 [PDF]
, 2003 The purpose of this paper is to use the fifteenth anniversary of the accession of Portugal and Spain to the European Union as an opportunity to reflect on what has happened to both countries since 1986.
Manuel, Paul Christopher. +1 more
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O espaço em mudança num mundo global: redes portuguesas e brasileiras [PDF]
En un contexto contemporáneo, el concepto de redes de poder es una herramienta ineludible en el estudio de la sociedad política. La superposición del poder político y de las muchas redes de entidades que conforman el contexto social, constituyen las ...
Oliveira, Patrícia +2 more
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Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 2112-2135, November 2024.Abstract This paper proposes new perspectives on anarchism, indigeneity, and Afro‐descendent struggles, by discussing the case of Brazilian anarchists’ commitment to luta afroindígena. They mean by this term the intersection of indigenous and Afro‐descendant resistances for the recognition of land, against the violence of states, agribusiness, and ...
Federico Ferretti
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Whose urn is it anyway? Discussions on decolonisation & repatriation efforts in the cultural heritage sector in Portugal [PDF]
, 2023 Recent initiatives and reports, such as the Savoy–Sarr report in France, show some positive response among Western countries to the increasingly frequent calls for repatriating artefacts from museums, often as part of larger decolonisation efforts ...
Ransick, Kelsey J. S.
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Revista Crítica de Ciências SociaisThe year 2023 marked the centenary of Eduardo Lourenço (1923-2020), one of the most original and recognised personalities in philosophy and culture in Portugal.
Hugo Monteiro
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Who wants to be erased? Social representations of world history and decolonisation of thought [PDF]
, 2014 Publicado em: "Colonialisms, post-colonialisms and lusophonies: proceedings of the 4th International Congress in Cultural Studies". ISBN 978-989-98219-2-7The representations of world history conveyed by the media and disseminated in global ...
Cabecinhas, Rosa
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imaginative geographies of Africa in a Portuguese travel magazine [PDF]
, 2014 This paper is about tourism, visual culture, and imperialism in the post-colonial present. International literature on these issues has been especially focused on the experience of British and French post-colonialism.
Brito-Henriques, Eduardo
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Intersections of Empire, Post-Empire, and Diaspora: De-Imperializing Lusophone Studies [PDF]
, 2020 The present article opens with a generic plea for the de-imperialization of Lusophone studies. A de-imperial turn should allow researchers to explore more thoroughly the experiences of diaspora and exile that an empire-centered history and its spin-offs ...
Bastos, Cristiana
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Black Immigrants in Portugal: Luso–Tropicalism and Prejudice [PDF]
Journal of Social Issues, 2008 This article analyzes the relationship between the luso–tropicalist representation of the history of Portuguese colonization and overt as well as covert expressions of anti‐immigrant prejudice. The luso–tropicalist representation emphasizes the uniqueness of the Portuguese colonial relations based on Portuguese empathy and capacity to deal with people ...
Vala, Jorge, Lopes, Diniz, Lima, Marcus
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