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El arbitrismo sobre la América portuguesa y la herencia de los Austrias (1620-1655)
This article examines the approach of arbitristas to Portuguese America, underlining the ties between the Iberian empires. Following on the Dutch invasions of Bahía (1624/25) and Pernambuco (1630), the arbitristas who wrote about Brazil produced various ...
Vinícius Dantas
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User's Profile of a Portuguese Thermal Establishment: Empirical Study
The thermal tradition plays an important role for society by naturally promoting and improving individuals' well-being. Thermal treatments help cure diseases and prevent pathologies, including mental and social ones, providing users with a better quality of life.
Márcia Vaz +6 more
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Preliminary thoughts upon the policies of the Ottoman State in the 16th century Indian Ocean [PDF]
This article aims to sketch concisely about the relationships between the Ottomans and the Portuguese pertaining to the developments in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 16th century. The purpose of the Portuguese Kingdom to establish hegemony in
Ozay, Mehmet
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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]
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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The Colonial Official as Ethnographer; VOC Documents as Resources for Social History in Eastern Indonesia [PDF]
The present article departs from the inherent problems of grasping the voice of the subaltern other in a colonial context. While postcolonial theoreticians have occasionally spoken pessimistically about the possibilities of reconstructing the agency of ...
Hägerdal, H. (Hans)
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The impacts of biological invasions
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Review of Cátia A.P. Antunes, ed., Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660, Leiden: Brill, 2022, reviewed by Stuart B ...
Stuart B. Schwartz
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From the beginning of European overseas expansion in the fifteenth century, religious missions occupied an important place in the internal organisation of colonial empires.
Hugo Gonçalves Dores
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Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa +4 more
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Colonialism, christians and sport : the catholic church and football in Goa, 1883-1951 [PDF]
The chapter uses the development of football in Goa, the Portuguese colony in India until 1961, as a case study with which to critique existing histories of sport and colonialism.
Mills, James
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