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A presente obra aborda aspectos referentes as relações internacionais e a imigração no estado de Santa Catarina durante o movimento social do Contestado. A partir da redução da escala de análise das fontes/documentos que remetem a casos de mortes, prisões, saques, incêndios criminosos e chacinas envolvendo imigrantes europeus, a autora apresenta e discute questões de proporções macro, como as consequências de tais casos nas relações internacionais entre Brasil e os países europeus que fomentavam política imigratória brasileira.
Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the ...
This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the...
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