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

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

... Portuguese empire Angola Luís da Câmara Cascudo Minas Gerais ...

... 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...

... 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...

...? 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...

... 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...

...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...