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Crescent Remembered
Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs of national identities. Politicians, historians and intellectuals debated vigorously the question how the Muslim past could be reconciled with the idea of the Catholic nation. The Crescent Remembered investigates the processes of exclusion and integration of the Islamic past within the national narratives. It analyses discourses of historiography, Arabic studies, mythology, popular culture and colonial policies towards Muslim populations from the 19th century to the dictatorships of Franco and Salazar in the 20th century. In particular, it explores why, despite apparent historical similarities, in Spain and Portugal entirely different strategies and discourses concerning the Islamic past emerged. In the process, it seeks to shed light on the role of the Iberian Peninsula as a crucial European historical "contact zone" with Islam.
Frontiers of Possession
A “lucid” analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas (Publishers Weekly). Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and Portuguese claims in the New and Old Worlds, Tamar Herzog reconstructs the different ways land rights were negotiated and enforced, sometimes violently, among people who remembered old possessions or envisioned new ones: farmers and nobles, clergymen and missionaries, settlers and indigenous peoples. Qu...
Religion and Politics in a Global Society
Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox, explores the legacy of the Portuguese colonial experience, with careful consideration of the lasting impression that this experience has had on the cultural, religious, and political dynamics in the former colonies. Applying the insights derived from three theoretical schools (religious society, political institutions, and cultural toolkit), this volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, offering in-depth case studies on Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Goa, Mozambique, and Portugal—societies connected by a shared colonial past and common cultural and sociolinguistic characteristics. Each chapter examines questions on how faith and culture interrelate, and how the various national experiences might resonate with one another. This volume provides a deeper understanding of the Lusophone global society, as well as the larger field of religion and politics.
The Complex of United States-Portuguese Relations
Hearings held before and after the Apr. 25, 1974 coup, known as the Carnation Revolution, to consider the Azores agreement; U.S. military assistance to Portugal and its implications for U.S. relations with African; and developments in Mozambique, Angola, and the new Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Also considers present view in Portugal on the so-called territories in Africa, particularly those of General Antonio de Spinola, former commanding officer of Guinea-Bissau, and the question of Brazil's relationship with Portugal in Africa.
História, Empresas, Arqueologia Industrial e Museologia
A presente obra é composta por um conjunto vasto de textos que, apesar da sua heterogeneidade teórica e temática, sustenta a sua unidade no facto de todos os trabalhos incidirem sobre regionalidades historiográficas da Época Contemporânea — a teoria da história, a história empresarial, a arqueologia industrial, a didática da história, o património cultural e a museologia —, mas também por procurar refletir muitas das principais áreas de investigação e de divulgação do historiador e professor José M. Amado Mendes. O facto de os coordenadores e os autores do livro serem discípulos, colegas e amigos do Doutor José M. Amado Mendes e, naturalmente, também bons conhecedore...
A Ring of Castles
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O estado novo e o volfrâmio (1933-1947): actividade mineira, "grande depressão" e segunda guerra mundial
Visa-se neste livro reconstituir e analisar a evolução do subsector luso do volfrâmio, quer na década de 1930 — etapa de crise e paulatina reativação —, quer ao longo dos anos quarenta, com destaque para o período da Segunda Guerra Mundial (fase de “euforia especulativa”). Observa-se, ainda, a título de contextualização, o período que decorreu entre o início da mineração do tungsténio em Portugal continental (1871) e o promulgar da “Lei de Minas do Estado Novo” (Julho de 1930), passando pela Primeira Grande Guerra (1914-1918). Sendo o volfrâmio um “metal estratégico”, presta-se a atenção às vertentes económica e social, cultural e ideológica, mas, també...
Planting Power
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