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Published: 01 September 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387107-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8710-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... Portuguese empire Angola Luís da Câmara Cascudo Minas Gerais ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... to correct, overrule, and narrow those meanings to their liking. The chapter is framed with two late nineteenth-century references to birds: one from Angola and the other from Minas Gerais. The first example gives way to a broader discussion of the Portuguese empire and the way that European authors who...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-026
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... On September 2, 2018, São Cristóvão Palace was destroyed in a catastrophic fire. This palace was a mighty, sprawling architectural monument built in 1803 that served as home to the Portuguese imperial family when Rio de Janeiro was the seat of the global Portuguese Empire and after independence...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... while also attempting to correct, overrule, and narrow those meanings to their liking. The chapter is framed with two late nineteenth-century references to birds: one from Angola and the other from Minas Gerais. The first example gives way to a broader discussion of the Portuguese empire and the way...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 08 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375692-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7569-2
... of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, and the ways in which the expanding globe was being imagined. Two litigation suits spanning the years from 1557 to 1572 and encompassing three generations (two women, their daughters, and grandchildren) pit inhabitants of the village, including slaves from India, Africa...
Book Chapter

By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... monument built in 1803 that served as home to the Portuguese imperial family when Rio de Janeiro was the seat of the global Portuguese Empire and after independence from Portugal in 1822. In 1892, the palace was transformed into the National Museum. This edifice was unique, for it also served...
Series: Theory Q
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024484-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2448-4
...? Eschewing the conventional segregation of spatialities (Latin American studies versus South Asian studies) that often undergirds the force of the decolonial turn, this chapter engages the emergence of the Samaj in the fraught contexts of colonial Portuguese India. In so doing, the chapter poses one central...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374305-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
... Brazil became independent with less political and social conflict than most regions of the Americas. Beginning as a Portuguese colony, it remained tied to Britain through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It flourished after 1800 as sugar, coffee, and slavery expanded to fill markets...
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
...Atlantic Transformations In the wake of Napoleon’s 1808 invasion of Iberia, Spaniards fought for independence at home while struggling to hold the empire together. That complex and conflictive process led to the 1812 Cádiz Constitution, a document offering citizenship and electoral...
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
...Hemispheric Challenges Chapter 1 details how silver mined in the Andes and New Spain (Mexico) was pivotal to trade with China and the rise of the first global commercial capitalism, and how the sugar and slave economy first proven in Portuguese Brazil spread along Atlantic America to support...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them in a classified collection of annotated “pictures.” This watershed in mapping and data management dates to 1460, when officials in Venice decreed that accurate knowledge of place for the entire empire should be handily available...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
...” of the Spanish empire. Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Pedro Vicente Cañete y Domínguez (1749/50–1816) worked his way up as an “enlightened” functionary of the colonial administration in the late eighteenth century. In his impressive compendium, Historical, Geographical, Physical, Political, Civil, and Legal Guide...