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Portuguese Immigrant Experience in America in Autobiography
Hispania, 2005Discussion of eleven memoirs by Portuguese immigrants and Luso-Americans in the U.S. First, the author focuses on the thematic content and some of the structural features of each of the texts. Afterwards, he surveys some theories of immigrant autobiography in order to account for the most salient experiential and ideological patterns that recur, with ...
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Contact Between Spanish and Portuguese in South America
2022Spanish and Portuguese are in contact along the extensive border of Brazil and its neighboring Spanish-speaking countries. Transnational interactions in some border communities allow for ephemeral language accommodations that occur when speakers of both languages communicate during social interactions and business transactions, facilitated by the lack ...
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Colonial Towns of Spanish and Portuguese America
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1955IN THE TWO centuries between 1500 and 1700 six European nations established towns and colonies in the Americas. Of these only Spain laid out towns according to a regular and unvarying plan. This plan represented an orderly practical concept without precedent in the immediate background of Europe.
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Placing the Empire: Environmental Geographies of Portuguese America
e-Journal of Portuguese HistoryAbstract The article explores Brazil’s colonial history by centring place-making as a critical dimension of the early modern Portuguese empire. Complementing economic and socio-political approaches to imperial spatiality, we address Brazil as a territory whose contours and contents emerged from the entanglement between colonial ...
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Cannibal Theologies in Colonial Portuguese America (1549-1759)
Journal of Early Modern History, 2017This article examines Jesuit-signed texts written in the Brasílica lingua franca and used in the religious conversion of native peoples in colonial Portuguese America (1549-1759). I study translation strategies for conveying the sacrament of Communion, arguing that doctrinal explanations and word choices recorded in catechisms and dictionaries reflect ...
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The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in America
1965At every stage of European overseas expansion there were one or more colonial powers which overshadowed the rest. In the modern period these were Britainand France; before 1815 Spain and Portugal. Their primacy lay not only in the fact that they were the discoverers, but that they worked out four of the five models for effective colonization which were
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Economy and Society in Southern Portuguese Colonial America
2020A general overview of the economy and society in the southern part of Portuguese America from the late 17th century to the early 19th century (c. 1680–1820) must address three interconnected areas of colonization: the commercial and military settlement of Colonia de Sacramento, located on the banks of the La Plata River within the borders of modern-day
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Color and Race in Portuguese America, 1640–1750
2019Color and race are important references for assessing the privileges and barriers that sustained or impeded the social ascension of New Christians, Africans, Indians, and mestiços in the Portuguese world. Questions of race and color had profound links with the Catholic faith and with social exclusion, especially of Afro-descendants.
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Comparison of Evangelization in Portuguese and Spanish America
The Americas, 1958The author of these lines wishes, first of all, to ask your permission to study the theme presented in this program a trifle more extensively. That is to say, I will not limit myself in a spirit, perhaps, that is too narrow, to study only the evangelization of Brazil and Spanish America, but I will take a wider perspective of ecclesiastical or ...
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Relations of the Negro with Christianity in Portuguese America
The Americas, 1958The African came to know Christianity, in this part of the New World, as a system of values (the Christian ideas), and as a normative structure (the Catholic Church). These two were interrelated, although frequently in conflict with other values and other structures emerging from the social system which was established as a consequence of Portuguese ...
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