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Blacksmiths of Ilamba
This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the...
The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850
This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 explores transatlantic connections by following individuals—be they slaves, traders, or adventurers—whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. Whatever their reasons, tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures, classes, races, ideas, and systems in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories, this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people—both famous and everyday—whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact.
The Trade in the Living
Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era. The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the “sad blood” of the “black and unfortunate souls” imported from Angola. In The Trade in the Living, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this intricate and complementary relationship between two non-European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker, hidden history.
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire.
Natives, Iberians, and Imperial Loyalties in the South American Borderlands, 1750–1800
This book examines the efforts of Spaniards and Portuguese to attract Native peoples and other settlers to the villages, missions, and fortifications they installed in a disputed area between present-day Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The first part examines how autonomous Native peoples and those who lived in the Jesuit missions responded to the Indigenous policies the Iberian crowns initiated following the 1768 expulsion of the Society of Jesus. The second part examines military recruitment and supply circuits, showing how the political centers’ strategy of transferring part of the costs and delegating responsibilities to local sectors shaped interactions between officers, soldiers, Natives, and other inhabitants. Moving beyond national approaches, the book shows how both Iberian empires influenced each other and the lives of the diverse peoples who inhabited the border regions.
As lides do Talaya
Poeta da corte referenciado por Bocage, toureiro famoso satirizado por Lobo de Carvalho, almotacé, capitão, bacharel em direito canónico, burocrata na administração do reino, etc., João Dias Talaya Sottomaior era um homem especialmente dotado para as relações sociais. No ano de 1777, que marcou o inÃcio do reinado de D. Maria I, e sob a protecção do rei consorte D. Pedro III, o capitão João Dias Talaya funda em Sacavém a Nova e Real Academia dos Obsequiosos. Esta era por excelência uma academia de louvor; no centro da sua produção literária estava o encómio à famÃlia real, um conceito que encontrava nos discursos laudatórios uma das suas mais significativas manifestaçÃ...
Economia da Natureza
"Economia da natureza", concepção segundo a qual existe uma ordem na natureza, foi um dos conceitos estruturantes do domÃnio da História Natural no pensamento das Luzes. Este livro examina o uso desse conceito por autores ilustrados portugueses e luso-americanos. O estudo da natureza foi pensado tanto para atender a finalidades religiosas (Teologia Natural) quanto para a busca do conhecimento das utilidades – sobretudo econômicas – que poderia oferecer ao homem. Na segunda metade do século XVIII, a História Natural foi concebida como saber estratégico pelo Estado português, que incentivou a pesquisa naturalÃstica no sentido utilitário.
A Universidade Pombalina
Tendo por base os textos do programa de conferências realizado, na primavera de 2015, no âmbito do curso de doutoramento em Altos Estudos em História da FLUC, aos quais se agregaram outros trabalhos de investigação afins e enriquecedores da perspetiva historiográfica, esta obra pretende carrear novos dados para a compreensão da inscrição do moderno paradigma cientÃfico no quadro estatutário da reforma pombalina da universidade de Coimbra, em 1772. Ao fazê-lo não só atende à dinâmica da relação entre ciência e universidade em questões de método de ensino e conteúdos ensinados, como também à compreensão da ciência e dos seus campos de aplicação para além do espaço circunscrito em que ela foi praticada e ensinada, privilegiando-se claramente esta segunda perspetiva. Assim é que a reforma pombalina se inscreve num processo que a antecede mas sobretudo se projeta para lá do tempo da sua implantação através da implicação prática do conhecimento cientÃfico nas realizações materiais e na visão polÃtica da respublica, da mudança de paradigma social e da dimensão funcional e memorial das coleções cientÃficas.
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La démographie des minorités traite d'un sujet extrêmement complexe. Les minorités sont multiples et les relations qu'elles entretiennent avec leur majorité sont tout aussi diverses et toujours susceptibles de changer. Les études rassemblées dans ce volume présentent différents groupes minoritaires dans leur contexte politique et culturel et développent avec soin les modes de définition et leurs influences. Les auteurs traitent aussi des évolutions: d'une part, la reproduction de sous-populations à partir de comportements démographiques qui sont des héritages culturels, plus ou moins altérés par des contraintes qui sont des construits politiques; d'autre part, la démographi...
