Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
The Historiographical Reception of A.J.R. Russell-Wood’s 'A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415-1808'.
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
A Receção Historiográfica de 'A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415-1808', de A.J.R. Russell
Name: Personal (orcid) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/identifiers/orcid.html", valueURI="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3784-5528")
Name Part
da Cunha, Mafalda Soares
affiliation
Universidade de Évora
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
surveys (documents)
Origin Information
Date Issued
Summer 2013
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2013-06
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
por
Physical Description
Extent
pp. 98-109
digitalOrigin
born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
'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.
Abstract (lang="por")
'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.
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
11
Part Caption
vol.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
1
Part Caption
no.
Extent (unit="page")
Start
98
End
109
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Portugal
Topic
Colonies
Geographic
Africa
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Portugal
Topic
Colonies
Geographic
Asia
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Brazil
Topic
History
Temporal
1415-1808
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Historiography
Geographic
Europe
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Russell-Wood, A. J. R.
Name Part: Date
1939-2010
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Part Number
vol. 11, no. 1
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/sb8d-kq72