Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects - Diogo Ramada Curto

Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects

The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Buch | Hardcover
514 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-706-4 (ISBN)
225,90 inkl. MwSt
In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of major Portuguese colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire's life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.
Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Diogo Ramada Curto is full professor and a coordinator of the doctoral program on Global Studies at the New University of Lisbon.

List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Part I. Language, Literature and the Empire, 1415–1570



Chapter 1. The Africans in Portugal: Between Presentation and Methods of Communication

Chapter 2. The System of Slave-Interpreter and Alternative Means of Communication

Chapter 3. The Age of Zurara: Guidance, Chronicles and Reports of Voyages

Chapter 4. The Era of Da Gama: Printed Books and the Distribution of Manuscripts

Chapter 5. The 1550s and 1560s



Part II. Written Culture and Practices of Identity, 1570–1697



Chapter 6. The World Theatre and Imperial Thought

Chapter 7. The State of India: Between Zain Al-Din and the Tradition of the Décadas

Chapter 8. Remedies or Resolutions

Chapter 9. Forms of Christianity in the East

Chapter 10. Reports of Voyages to Goa and the State of India

Chapter 11. Brazil, or the Province of Santa Cruz

Chapter 12. The Dutch in Brazil: Conflict and Dialogue

Chapter 13. The Inhabitants of Maranhão, Expeditions, the Peruleiros and the Slaves

Chapter 14. Colonial Projects for West Africa



Part III. Enlightenment and the Written Word, 1697–1808



Chapter 15. Reports of Voyages, Histories and Translations of Enlightened Europe

Chapter 16. Heroes of the State of India, Scientists and Orientalists

Chapter 17. The Journey to the Far East of António de Albuquerque Coelho

Chapter 18. Public Ceremonies and Academies in Brazil

Chapter 19. Naturalization, Indigenism, Reforms and Voyage Reports



Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Places

Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78920-706-1 / 1789207061
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-706-4 / 9781789207064
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