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Plant Collectors in Angola
"For any region, understanding historical botanical exploration, plant collection, and preserved specimens is critically important for research and conservation. In this book, Estrela Figueiredo and Gideon F. Smith, both botanists with expertise on the taxonomy of African plants, provide the first thorough and comprehensive account of plant collecting in Angola, a large country in south-tropical Africa. An essential book for anyone concerned with the biodiversity and history of Africa, this authoritative work offers insights on the lives, times, and endeavors of 358 collectors. In addition, the authors present analyses of the records that accompanied the collectors' preserved specimens. Illustrated in color throughout, the result fills a serious void in the current knowledge of the botanical and exploration history of Africa"--
African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity
This book offers a fresh look into the “languages of postcolonial modernity” in Africa and, to a lesser degree, its diaspora. It foregrounds the notion of postcolonial modernity in reference to modernization as experienced in the postcolony and its contemporary legacies, and investigates how African languages and literatures, both as means of communication and as instruments of cultural agency, have embodied and mediated modernity. Each chapter grapples with the literary or linguistic dimensions of postcolonial modernity as portrayed in African novels, film, poetry or popular music or as embodied in African and Afro-diasporic languages and dialects. The chapters also reveal how literature and language, respectively, document and embody discourses, phenomena, histories, ideologies, and beliefs that resulted from the legacies of colonialism.
Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World
This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical backgrounds, the book explores an array of fundamental actors, institutions and processes that have decisively shaped contemporary history and the present. Among other crucial topics, it considers the expansion in the number and scope of activities of international organizations and its impact on formal and informal imperial polities, as well as the propagation of developmentalist ethos and discourses, relating them to major historical processes such as the growing institutionalization of international scrutiny in the interwar years or, later, the emerging global Cold War.
With Broadax and Firebrand
Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s—through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing...
The Internationalisation of the ‘Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945–1962
This volume addresses the ways the ‘native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War. As other European colonial empires were tentatively transforming their labour and social policies in the aftermath of the war, the Portuguese Empire in Africa resisted significant changes in this domain, preserving a strict dual labour regime. As a result, a growing number of individuals, networks and institutions abroad engaged with labour and social realities in Portuguese African colonies, giving origin to a series of instances of denunciation of labour-related abuses. ...
Direito Empresarial para Economistas e Gestores - 4a Edição
Decorridos quatro anos sobre a data da última edição, publica-se uma 4a edição devidamente atualizada – em particular, no que se refere às fontes legais e doutrinais – do manual de «Direito Empresarial para Economistas e Gestores», livro que foi inicialmente escrito para servir de suporte à lecionação de uma disciplina jurídica única, em torno do Direito Comercial, nos cursos de Economia e de Administração e Gestão de Empresas, e que contempla também matéria de Introdução ao Direito, de modo a proporcionar a todos os que se graduam em estudos económicos e afins uma abordagem jurídica tão completa quanto possível. Mas, paralela e simultaneamente, esta obra pretende...
Contencioso Administrativo - 5a Edição
Esta obra constitui um auxiliar prático não apenas para os que se estão a iniciar nos processos de contencioso administrativo, mas também para quem pretenda atualizar-se nesta área. Aliás, mais apropriado seria o título de “Prática Processual Administrativa”, pois trata-se de um livro essencialmente prático. Os seus 13 capítulos incluem, além do processo contencioso, outras matérias diversificadas, como as garantias administrativas e a arbitragem.
A Verdade Material na Decisão Judicial no Direito Civil Português
A tese que apresentamos tem como escopo principal definir o conceito de verdade e procura perceber quais os fundamentos da decisão judicial no processo civil português. O conceito de verdade tem suscitado uma discussão desde há milhares de anos. No âmbito do processo importa compreender e definir qual é o fim do processo, ou se preferirmos qual o escopo formal e que cumpre ao juiz materializar. Apenas dessa forma podemos compreender se a solução que a decisão apresenta cumpriu com o seu objetivo. O processo civil tem na prova a sua principal “ferramenta” para promover a descoberta da verdade, mas temos que assumir que nunca representará uma garantia, tal é a sua falibilidade. A este respeito não podemos deixar de referir o problema da prova diabólica que condiciona o inicialmente onerado e que obriga o legislador a equacionar se a distribuição estática da prova pode impor, algumas das vezes, a injustiça no caso concreto. Neste sentido, importa considerar se é possível o recurso à distribuição dinâmica da prova no ordenamento jurídico português.
