Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects : : The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries /

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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Curto, Diogo Ramada,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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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

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