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Managing Diversity in the Portuguese Empire
, 2021 Abstract The production of diversity and its transformation into hierarchy and social inequality in the Portuguese Empire are at the core of this essay. Conversion of local populations and slaves to Catholicism was the main strategy used by the Portuguese Empire to create allegiance and reduce diversity.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Mercês e cartografia no governo do Império Marítimo Português: o caso de João Teixeira [PDF]
Navigator, 2011 In the context of the Ancien Régime, the Teixeiras produced several maps representing the Portuguese dominions in the America. These maps were narratives of possessions and allowed the Crown could obtain knowledge and develop a management of its more ...
Marcello José Gomes Loureiro
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Caravelle, 2016 Historiography considered the Portuguese colonial Amazon region as being a “land of Indians”. Scholars argued that African slavery was economically just not possible, due to the settlers’ poverty, and especially the region’s geographical isolation, which
Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz
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, 1958 Concurrent with the political and diplomatic developments just described, and exercising a significant influence upon them, there occurred a vast overseas expansion of Western Civilization.
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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O Brasil e o Atlântico Sul na historiografia de Charles Boxer
Ler História, 2017 The purpose of this article is to reflect on the historical writing of Charles Boxer (1904-2000), with emphasis on his works about Portuguese America and South Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although other texts will be considered, the analysis
Alberto Luiz Schneider
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Selden's Mare Clausum: the secularisation of international law and the rise of soft imperialism [PDF]
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Somos, Mark
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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