With the onset of Salazarism in the 1930s, the cult of the Portuguese Discoveries—itself a product of late nineteenth-century Portuguese nationalism—again became a fulcrum of …
This investigation compares the Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas with the Portuguese cleric Fernando Oliveira, both of whom raised their voices in protest during …
Since the emergence of human capital theory in the late 1950s and the subsequent development of the economics of education, there has been some interest …
The brazilwood trade was the first major economic activity of colonial Brazil, but little research has examined the trade after the middle of the sixteenth …
The colonial administration and management of the indigenous peoples of Brazil has been a recurrent theme in historiography. However, the Amerindians themselves, important actors in …
This article analyses international humanitarian population management strategies deployed in response to the Angolan refugee crisis in the Congo-Leopoldville in the first years of the …
This article is a textual and contextual analysis of one of Father António Vieira’s apocryphal writings addressed to Portugal’s prince regent D. Pedro: the “Paper …
This article discusses two recent studies about the model of the Portuguese political system in the late Ancien Regime. According to the first of these, …
This document is a tribute to the historian António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques (1933-2007), one of the key names in Portuguese historiography in the …
This paper discusses the importance of the historian A.H. de Oliveira Marques, who over the course of some forty years of febrile activity contributed enormously …
This paper focuses on the author A.H. de Oliveira Marques and his multi-faceted work and personality. Oliveira Marques was neither merely a medievalist, nor an …
In 1961, the Kennedy Administration decided to adopt a new African policy, supporting self-determination and independence. This change occurred while the war against Portuguese colonial …
