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Author Curto, Diogo Ramada, author.

Title Imperial culture and colonial projects : the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Diogo Ramada Curto ; translated by Alison Aiken
Edition English-language edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 506 pages)
Contents Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Language, Literature and the Empire, 1415-1570 -- Chapter 1. The Africans in Portugal -- Chapter 2. The System of Slave-Interpreter and Alternative Means of Communication -- Chapter 3. The Age of Zurara -- Chapter 4. The Era of Da Gama -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Antóniode 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 by Unicamp, Brazil."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2020)
Subject Civilization, Modern -- European influences.
Colonization -- History
Discoveries in geography.
HISTORY / Historiography
Civilization, Modern -- European influences
Colonization
Discoveries in geography
Territorial expansion
SUBJECT Europe -- Territorial expansion
Europe -- Colonies
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Aiken, Alison, translator
LC no. 2020015789
ISBN 178920707X
9781789207071
Other Titles Cultura imperial e projetos coloniais. English