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The Portuguese Empire

2014
F. Meneses
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The Camera and the Railway: Framing the Portuguese Empire and Technological Landscapes in Angola and Mozambique, 1880s–1910s

Technology and Culture, 2023
:Starting in the 1880s, Portugal invested in constructing railways in its African colonies, Angola and Mozambique. The aim was both to solidify Portuguese presence in territories disputed by other imperial nations and to facilitate exploration of the ...
H. Pereira
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Free Agents and Formal Institutions in the Portuguese Empire: Towards a Framework of Analysis

Portuguese Studies, 2022
:The study of the structural role that free agency played in the construction of the Portuguese empire has been generally neglected. This article will tackle the question of how free agents (understood as entrepreneurs operating outside of the myriad ...
C. Antunes
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Military Encounters in the Eighteenth Century: Carlos Julião and Racial Representations in the Portuguese Empire

Portuguese Studies, 2022
:This article analyses two illustrations produced by the Italian soldier and artist, Carlos Juliao, who served in the Portuguese colonial army as an engineer during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Maria Manuela Tenreiro
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017)

Journal of African Cinemas, 2020
Review of: (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017) Oxford: Peter Lang, 287 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78707-318-0, p/bk ...
Claudia Gastrow
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How the East was Lost: Coevolution of Institutions and Culture in the 16th Century Portuguese Empire

, 2020
In 1498 Portuguese explorers discovered the sea route to Asia and for nearly 100 years no other nation managed to follow suit. This monopoly allowed Portugal to establish a vast maritime empire that positioned it to dominate the intercontinental trade in
Bernardo Mueller, João Gabriel Ayello Leite   +1 more
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Internationalism and the Labours of the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1945–1974)

Portuguese Studies, 2022
:This article aims to analyse the relationship between the Portuguese Empire and two international institutions (the United Nations and the International Labour Organization) as concerns the organization and regulation of colonial labour after World War ...
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, J. Monteiro
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The Missing Pictures: Southern European Catholic Missionaries, Humanitarian Photography and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire in Mozambique

International History Review
This article contributes to two sets of growing historiographies: one on the role of religious actors in the fall of European Empires; and another one on humanitarian photography.
Alba Martín Luque
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African Women’s Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire

African Economic History, 2016
The study of African women's access and rights to property in the Portuguese empire allows us to historicize African women's experience with wealth and poverty. Since the 1960s, studies have brought attention to the reality that poverty in Africa affects
Mariana Candido, E. Rodrigues
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Empire and Decolonization in Portuguese Africa

2022
Abstract This chapter addresses some of the most important historical processes that shaped Portuguese late colonialism and decolonization from 1945 to 1975. The authors argue that to fully apprehend the dynamics that led to the transfers of power, the independence of several former Portuguese African colonies, and its post-imperial ...
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, José Pedro Monteiro   +1 more
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