This dissertation concerns two interrelated areas of cultural policy in Turkey: the curation of an official broadcast repertoire of folk music at the state broadcasting …
Brazilian literature has for a long time enclosed itself within the frontiers of nationalism and cultural identity. This essay proposes that critics and historians deal …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
This dissertation reveals how the US military played a decisive role in the development of global capitalism since World War II. During the Cold War, …
Advances in Urban Science, particularly Urban Scaling Theory, have begun to uncover and explain urban dynamics shared by cities across time and place. This thesis …
This article analyzes Luís Adão da Fonseca’s contribution to the study of the Portuguese overseas expansion. Most of his work deals with a narrow chronology …
From the concept of socio-economic globalization, this essay examines the role of modern nationalities in the scenery of a world marketplace, in which political issues …
The author addresses the question of the internationalization of Portuguese historiography, starting by answering why it has historically been such an important issue.
This dissertation investigates Estonian hip-hop artists’ engagement with concepts of national suffering, character, and anxieties by examining the play of collective social norms and individuality …
My dissertation challenges both the assertion and dismissal of identity politics in the humanities through a queer-diasporic overhaul of the concept of "narcissism." Both the …
Why do developing country governments support the creation of domestic multinational corporations (MNCs)? I argue that governments can use the outward foreign direct investments of …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
This note announces the publication of the final set of papers presented at the 2012 conference, "Portuguese History in a Global Context," which constituted an …
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
In recent decades, the djembe has become a global commodity. Originating as a local ceremonial drum in rural Mande communities, the djembe has since proliferated …
The author presents a brief account of the history of the Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (APHES), which completed its first 25 years. …
The author presents a personal statement regarding the question posed about the internationalization of contemporary Portuguese historiography. He defends that there is no contradiction between …
The author presents a personal statement about the internationalization of Portuguese historiography, by reflecting on the following issue: why, in the beginning of the 21st …
The author reflects on barriers to the internationalization of Portuguese historiography, by listing and discussing a series of factors, including both missing and forsaken opportunities: …