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Empire, postcoloniality and diasporas: The Portuguese case
Papers, 2007 The text analyzes the contradictions, ambiguities and accommodations underlying the remodelling of Portugal from an imperial metropolis into a European post-colonial nation. It focuses on two interrelated and contradictory facets of national redefinition
Bela Feldman-Bianco
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Brésil(s), 2021 In The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move, A.J.R. Russell-Wood notes that the expansion and workings of Portugal’s early modern empire were the product of Portuguese male migration and settlement in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Mariana L. R. Dantas
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The struggle for the Bay : the life and times of Sandwip, an almost unknown Portuguese port in the Bay of Bengal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]
Revista da Faculdade de Letras. Série de História, 2008 This article places Sandwip, a lesser known salt trading island and port in the Bay of Bengal within the nexus of global trade and politics in the seventeenth century.
Rila Mukherjee
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The Misericórdias as Social Economy Entities in Portugal and Spain
Religions, 2020 Las Santas Casas de Misericórdias (The Holy Houses of Mercy) are institutions of Portuguese origin that emerged in the late fifteenth century and that, over time, have expanded beyond the territories of the Portuguese Empire, including to Spain, where ...
Antonio José Macías Ruano +3 more
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‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot’: On the Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700
Ler História, 2021 The essay reflects on the context of the publication and reception of The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700, a book that first appeared in 1993, and was translated into Portuguese, French and Chinese.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship
Práticas da História, 2023 Review of Elsa Peralta and Nuno Domingos, eds. Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2023, 288 pp.
Iracema Dulley
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023 The article presents the impact of the Islamicate populations and literacies in Portuguese colonial litera-ture and scholarship. The main ethnic group that focused the attention of the colonisers were the aggres-sive, dominant Fulani portrayed in the ...
Ewa A. Łukaszyk
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2018 This article proposes to explore the government of the Portuguese empire in the seventeenth century, by turning our attention from the metropolitan institutions to the local governmental practices, and to take more into account the territorial dimension ...
Guida Marques
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 This paper aims to reveal and interpret the messianic messages arising from the Inquisition of Évora (Portugal) trials against a group of first generation converts following the general expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in 1492 and 1496 ...
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim
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Christians and Spices: A Critical Reflection on Indian Nationalist Discourses in Portuguese India
Práticas da História, 2016 Indian nationalist discourses in Portuguese India have a direct relation with the political developments in British India. I use the terms ‘British India’ instead of ‘India’ and ‘Portuguese India’ instead of ‘Goa’ (and the territories of Daman and Diu on
Dale Luis Menezes
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