Imperial culture and colonial projects : the portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Diogo Ramada Curto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curto, Diogo Ramada, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territorial expansion.

Europe--Territorial expansion.

Europe.

Europe--Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, United States of America : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2020.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-778-9

1-78920-707-X

OCLC:

1347246788