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Staging Difficult Pasts
This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and m...
Comrades, Clients and Cousins
Colonized in the late 15th century, São Tomé and Príncipe were ruled by Portugal for 500 years, one of the longest periods of European domination in colonial history. In fact, during this period the Portuguese colonized the islands twice. Both colonizations were driven by the production of tropical cash crops; however, they occurred under rather different circumstances. Its long history as a plantation colony has made this African archipelago in many aspects more akin to the small Caribbean states. Since its decolonization in 1975 the small and impoverished country has experienced two fundamental changes to its political and economic system in a short period of 15 years. After embracing s...
The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Volume I: This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume II: This is translated from Part ii of the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Volume III: Part iii of the 1774 edition. With descriptions of Malacca and Goa translated from Pedro Barretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental. The supplementary material consists of the 1880 annual report. Volume IV: Part iv of the 1774 edition. With Portuguese descriptions of places and fortresses in Portuguese India, and a pedigree of Albuquerque from British Library MSS. With an index to all four volumes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1875,1877, 1880 and 1884.
Por uma vida mais Simples
Milhares de pessoas estão começando a priorizar sua qualidade de vida e fazer da simplicidade voluntária um fascinante fenômeno de comportamento. Por uma Vida Mais Simples narra trajetórias de pessoas que em algum momento sentiram-se descontentes com a vida que levavam e promoveram mudanças em busca de algo que as fizesse mais felizes. Em comum entre elas, o fato de terem optado por simplificar a própria vida. Neste livro você vai conhecer a história de muitos brasileiros que optaram por abrir mão de estilos de vida convencionais em nome de outros, mais frugais, mas muito mais gratificantes.
