Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects : : The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries / / Diogo Ramada Curto.
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 oth...
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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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