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Book Actas

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9789729510007
  • Pages : 1043 pages

Download or read book Actas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Col  quio Internacional de Hist  ria da Madeira  1986  actas

Download or read book Col quio Internacional de Hist ria da Madeira 1986 actas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Actas do I Col  quio internacional de hist  ria de Madeira

Download or read book Actas do I Col quio internacional de hist ria de Madeira written by Madère. Direcçâo regional de assuntos culturais and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Col  quio Internacional de Hist  ria da Madeira  1986

Download or read book Col quio Internacional de Hist ria da Madeira 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Col  quio Internacional de Hist  ria da Madeira  1986

Download or read book Col quio Internacional de Hist ria da Madeira 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gardens of Madeira   Gardens of the World

Download or read book Gardens of Madeira Gardens of the World written by Beata Elżbieta Cieszyńska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Gardens of Madeira – Gardens of the World. Contemporary Approaches displays present tendencies in calling upon the idea of gardens, being a wide-range approach to their literary, sociological and cultural representations. The book`s four parts: “Madeira: A Garden in the Sea?”, “Gardens as Temporal and Spatial Category. Cultural and Literary Approaches”, “Gardens as an Expression. Socio-cultural Perspectives” and “Re-Creating the Archetypal Garden – Discourses and Practices” refer to vast geographical and cultural areas, starting with the very complex sample of the overseas-yet-European Island of Madeira, and then joining the exemplification material from historical and contemporary European communities (with some luso-centric accents), including examples from the less known Slavonic and Eastern European countries. Those European issues are confronted with various non-European societies such as from Africa, Asia, and both Americas. Gardens evoke and express in many ways the present human condition, and - as such a process goes on - this book provides proposals for patterns to connect them to the modern and post-modern rules of self defining, reading the Other, interpreting world/national/cultural literatures, as well as to the various attempts to introduce the idea of gardens into the basic spatial and temporal aspects of contemporary communities. It also demonstrates the theoretical and practical attempts to project our “gardens` dependence” on to one of the essentials for contemporary societies which are multicultural, urbanised, technologically equipped and dependent, but which still are keen on reading and constructing paradises as environmental and cultural spaces for both asylum and encounter. The huge advantage of the book is showing to scholars and the wider public how discourses from the past meet with the quests of both the Humanities and the Sciences for gardening inspirations, not only for the sake of the today’s societies, but also when projecting the future of the Earth.

Book A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

Download or read book A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula written by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda."A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.

Book Enslaving Spirits

    Book Details:
  • Author : José C. Curto
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2003-12-01
  • ISBN : 9047412397
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Enslaving Spirits written by José C. Curto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as having played many important roles in the slave export trade of western Africa, foreign alcohol and its various functions within this context have nevertheless escaped systematic analysis. This volume focuses on the topic at Luanda and its Hinterland, where the connections between foreign alcohol and the slave export trade reached their zenith. Here, following the mid-1500s, an extremely close relationship developed between imported intoxicants and slaves exported, by the thousands in any given year, into the Atlantic World: first, fortified Portuguese wine and, following 1650, Brazilian rum emerged as crucial trade goods for the acquisition of slaves. But the significance of Luso-Brazilian intoxicants goes far beyond this singular fact: they also served a number of other functions, some of which were directly tied to slave trading and others indirectly underpinned the business. The volume addresses the problem of alcohol in African history, historicizes “indigenous” alcoholic beverages in West-Central Africa at the time of contact, analyzes the introduction and increasing use of foreign intoxicants for the acquisition of exportable slaves, ponders the profits that such transactions generated within the Atlantic world, reconstructs the other uses of imported alcohol in directly and indirectly underpinning the export slave trade of Luanda, and assesses the impact of foreign alcohol upon West-Central African consumers.

Book A Rota do a    car na Madeira

Download or read book A Rota do a car na Madeira written by Alberto Vieira and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portuguese Oceanic Expansion  1400 1800

Download or read book Portuguese Oceanic Expansion 1400 1800 written by Francisco Bethencourt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays in this volume treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update data and interpretations on the economic and financial trends of the Portuguese Empire. Interregional networks are analysed in a substantial way. Patterns of settlement, political configurations, ecclesiastical structures, and local powers are put in global context. Language and literature, the arts, and science and technology are revisited with refreshing and innovative approaches. The interaction between Portuguese and local people is studied in different contexts, while the entire imperial and colonial culture of the Portuguese world is looked at synthetically for the first time. In short, this book provides a broad understanding of the Portuguese Empire in its first four centuries as a factor in world history and as a major component of European expansion.

Book Handbook of Portuguese Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Portuguese Studies written by Ieda Siqueira Wiarda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-11-19 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congresso Internacional de Historia Missionac ao Portuguesa E Encontro de Culturas

Download or read book Congresso Internacional de Historia Missionac ao Portuguesa E Encontro de Culturas written by Universidade Católica Portuguesa and published by Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. This book was released on 1993 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Migrations

Download or read book Imperial Migrations written by E. Morier-Genoud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

Book The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic  Essays in Honour of Ursula Lamb

Download or read book The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic Essays in Honour of Ursula Lamb written by Timothy J. Coates and published by Baywolf Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue volume of the Portuguese Studies Review in honor of Ursula Lamb (1914-1996) presents studies by Timothy Coates, A.J.R. Russell-Wood, Ivana Elbl, Alberto Vieira, Martin Malcolm Elbl, Gerardo A. Lorenzino, César Braga-Pinto, Geraldo Pieroni, Janaína Amado, Mark Cooper Emerson, Ernst Pijning, and Kirsten Shultz. The studies explore the themes of settlement, colonization, ethnogenesis, banishment and exile, the intellectual and political construction of colonial identities, cross-cultural urbanism, and regulation of commerce. The volume also includes a bibliography of Ursula Lamb's works.

Book Portugal and the discovery of the Atlantic

Download or read book Portugal and the discovery of the Atlantic written by Alfredo Pinheiro Marques and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: