The paper's empirical section is based on the analysis of information provided by a survey made in Portugal, involving scientists from various fields of work. It highlights what scientists think about the conditions in which interdisciplinarity is possible, and the insitutional and policy changes ...
Colonialism has been a global phenomenon for many centuries, and there is no less reason to study the impact of the Umayyad, Ottoman, Mughal or Qing empires, or for earlier times those of the Aztecs, Incas or Ghanians, than those of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, ...