...The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821 ...

...A Note on the Orthography Of Brazilian Portuguese ...

... Sugar Duties Act crisis economy Portuguese Madeirans arson obeah theft crime protest ...

... This chapter describes how thousands of working-class youths come to the Pelourinho on Sunday nights to sing in unison as they “translate” classic Jamaican reggae songs into Portuguese entirely on the basis of the songs’ prosody. It examines how the discussions of commodities and consumption...

...? 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...

... 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...

... a financial crisis for all classes, especially for freedpeople. A series of disadvantageous events further exacerbated their distress, including a hurricane, the termination of state funding for education, and the importation of Portuguese Madeirans as labor competition. Amid such dire circumstances, black...

...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...

..., Britain, and the United States. sugar slavery rights politics loyalty 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...

... In the quest of Castilian slave owners to identify the imperial (i.e., Spanish vs. Portuguese) and geographical origins of indio litigants, witnesses and litigants navigated physiognomic identity markers and other criteria, including markings and language, which ultimately helped determine...

... 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...