Historical Trajectories of the Third Portuguese Empire: Re-examining the Dynamics of Imperial Rule and Colonial Societies (1900-1975) (original) (raw)

2017, Portuguese Studies Review

Abstract

The editors of the present special issue have aimed to bring to the fore recent, innovative research on a wide variety of territories and topics that explore the imperial archive and memory to bring to life colonial situations in different locations. From the outset, it was our intention to demonstrate the geographical, social, economic, political and cultural diversity of empire through a broad thematical prism. The most recurrent topics with regard to the Third Portuguese Empire such as (forced) labour, race, ideology, economic underdevelopment and conflict, have been complemented with studies that take a closer look at the state and colonial administration, colonial accounts, private enterprise, science, public health, violence and gender.The time frame of these contributions, from the late nineteenth century to the end of empire, and the spatial focus including Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique and Goa, provide examples of the current state of the art of archival fieldwork and memory related research on the ‘modern’ and ‘late’ Portuguese colonial empire and its populations.

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