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- Abstract:
- 'A World on the Move' was commissioned to reach large audiences and to put the Portuguese Empire on the map of international historiography, and its major flaw is simultaneously its greatest accomplishment. On the one hand, the very wide-ranging and ambitious nature of Russell-Wood’s book depicts a somewhat superficial and sometimes overrated approach to the action of the Portuguese. On the other hand, Russell-Wood’s ability to provide a comprehensive overview of the overseas action of the Portuguese (under the general theme of 'movement') definitively displaced (at least as far as Portuguese historiography is concerned) earlier nationalistic views of the Portuguese Empire, which had become too deeply entrenched. In this sense, this paper argues that the book contributed to a turning point in Portuguese historiography.
- 'A World on the Move' foi uma obra encomendada para atingir um público vasto e colocar o Império Português no mapa da historiografia internacional. A sua falha principal é, ao mesmo tempo, a sua maior conquista. Por um lado, a natureza abrangente e ambiciosa do livro de Russell-Wood retrata uma abordagem um tanto superficial e, por vezes, sobrevalorizada das ações portuguesas. Por outro lado, a capacidade de Russell-Wood para proporcionar uma visão integral das ações ultramarinas dos portugueses (sob o tópico geral de 'movimento') deslocou definitivamente (pelo menos do ponto de vista da historiografia portuguesa) antigas visões nacionalistas do Império Português, que se tinham tornado demasiada e profundamente inflexíveis. Assim, este ensaio argumenta que o livro contribuiu para um ponto de inflexão na historiografia portuguesa.
Citation
da Cunha, Mafalda Soares,
"The Historiographical Reception of A.J.R. Russell-Wood’s 'A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415-1808'."
(2013).
e-Journal of Portuguese History.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/sb8d-kq72
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e-Journal of Portuguese History
...The e-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) (ISSN: 1645-6432) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal with the objective of providing publication of work on historical subjects, especially those concerning themes and topics of Portuguese history analyzed in a comparative perspective. It …