Portugal went from being a small medieval kingdom on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula to a massive maritime empire. At its height in the 1500s, Portugal controlled parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. As one of the first European countries to take up colonial ventur...
The First Portuguese Colonial Empire - 1986, Page 37 by Malyn Newitt, Malyn Newitt, John Villiers, K. S. Mathew, Anthony Disney. Read The First Portuguese Colonial Empire now at Questia.Malyn NewittUniversity of Exeter PressNewitt, Malyn, ed. The First Portuguese Colonial Empire. Exeter: ...
Colonial PossessionsAfter Columbus showed that you could get somewhere by sailing across the Atlantic (1492-1493) and Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope all the way to India (1497-1498), it was clear that European sailing technology was ready to go anywhere in the world. In...
End of 19th century / Early 20th century Until the beginning of the 1960s, Portuguese emigration was essentially transoceanic. The Revolution of April, 25, 1974 and the colonial war April, 25, 1974 – The independence of Portuguese colonies The colonial war causes the greatest exodus in Portugue...
(namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) around 2000 years ago. It spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal established a colonial and commercial empire (1415 - 1999), which spanned from Brazil in the Americas to Goa and other parts of India ...
map political boundaries onto languages, assuming members of nation-state X to be speakers of language X (cf. Comments 20 and 46, above). Commentator 22, who projects political divisions onto peoples – in particular, colonial imaginings of Lusophone speakers – and then recursively replicates ...
Previous quantitative research found that just under a third of those registered by the consular services in London were born outside Portugal, an indication that the country retained its empire until the mid-1970s. Portugal's accession to Europe in 1986 permitted its former colonial subjects to ...
THE 1ST PORTUGUESE COLONIAL EMPIRE - NEWITT,Mdoi:10.1080/03086538708582736PEARSON, MNJOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY
Empire Cinema: Propaganda and censorship in colonial films during the Portuguese Estado NovoCENSORSHIPIMPERIALISMNEWSREELSMOTION pictures & politicsDOCUMENTARY filmsFARMSAiming to provide a critical analysis of the filmic memorial of Portuguese colonialism the a...
Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Nationalism, Popular Culture and CitizenshipDulley, IracemaPráticas da História