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The Making of a Court Society
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Public Health and Social Reforms in Portugal (1780-1805)
This monograph provides an innovative analysis of a unique period for social and public health policy in Portuguese history. With a firm basis in archival research, the book examines a lesser-known facet of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in the late Ancien Regime in Portugal: Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, the Intendant-General of Police from 1780 to 1805. By combining the resources of the Intendancy with those of the Casa Pia, an institution for welfare provision and social control that he set up just a month after being appointed, Pina Manique attempted to introduce a variety of projects designed to create a prosperous, healthy, well-educated, informed, clean and hard-working country less inclined to vice and immorality, in which the people would be obedient and the upper classes more magnanimous. One of his greatest achievements was perhaps to understand the link between ill health and poverty and therefore to regard public health as a key area of governance.
The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions
This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), which also invests in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Moving around urban shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, it approaches the crucial role of periodical press in the development of colonial print cultures and public debates in these regions. By being mostly focused on press from spaces and peoples under the domain of the Portuguese Emp...
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
Liberdade Religiosa Pura & Simples
A obra Liberdade Religiosa Pura e Simples aborda os vários motivos e causas do surgimento do fenômeno da Laicidade – separação Estado e Igreja. Dentro desse universo, o autor demonstra de forma pedagógica, mas singela, como são usados esses dois vernáculos atualmente, e clareia as nossas mentes, desfazendo a confusão em torno deles, mostrando-nos conceitos verdadeiros e dando-lhes o sentido real de cada um. Encontramos na obra aspectos históricos sobre relação do Estado e a Religião desde a antiguidade até os dias atuais, como também as influências da reforma protestante na igreja, na sociedade e nos Estados nação, passando pela liberdade e democracia no bojo da revoluçã...
