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Francisco Xavier de Meneses IV. Conde da Ericeira
Este livro recorda em traços largos um vulto prestigioso da nossa história cultural – D. Francisco Xavier de Menezes, 4º Conde da Ericeira –que polarizou em seu torno durante quase três décadas a aristocracia lisboeta e teve efetivamente um papel relevante na modernização da nossa mentalidade, documentado, entre outros aspetos, pelo impulso renovador que deu à atividade literária e científica de numerosas academias a que esteve ligado. D. Francisco Xavier de Menezes, situado em plena “crise da consciência europeia”, foi apanhado entre dois “tempos”. Detentor de múltiplos saberes, mas poeta pouco favorecido pelas musas: moldado pela tradição barroca, o 4º Conde da E...
Portuguese Enterprise in the East
Drawing on unpublished materials from the Overseas Historical Archive, and other libraries in Portugal, this book considers Portuguese leadership and organization at home, where it pertained to the governance of the eastern colonies; as well as the formal and ‘soft’ instruments of state applied on the ground in these colonies in first half of the eighteenth century.
L'Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century
This book explores how the origins of Brazil’s modern borders can be traced to the cartography of the Americas produced by the eighteenth-century French cartographer J.B.B. d’Anville. It argues that this map reflects the geopolitical policies of the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha, who was involved in Portugal’s negotiations with the Spanish to formally establish Brazil’s frontiers, and highlights how and why these policies were adopted in the Treaty of Madrid in 1750.
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire
A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal's formation and history up to 1807 and of its wide-flung maritime empire.
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, Portugal
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of how all this happened - the first such account to appear in English for more than a generation. Volume I concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, and Volume II traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.
The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal.
