The hypothesis that underlies this survey is that of a project of modernisation by an authoritarian state, which, for the first time in the history of this Empire, created in this colony a social setting in which the various groups that made up society were regarded as actors and led to ...
Arena and Leopoldina happen to meet again on a train. They are both returning from an exhibit entitledBlacks at the Heart of the Empireand, as they talk, she confesses that since her retirement, research into the history and social conditions of Africans in Portugal has become a passion of ...
The Portuguese empire gradually dissolved into sovereign states over the course of the next four to five centuries, and despite several modifications in writing conventions, Bueno (1967, cited in Garcez1993) explains that, “the orthography of the Portuguese language developed all the way to 1911 w...
For Portuguese decision-makers, the religious missions, with a multi-century tradition, had an important role in defending territorial claims overseas and promoting the empire’s nationalisation. However, the lack of national missionaries, Christianity’s inter-confessional competition in the nineteenth ...