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Imperial culture and colonial projects : the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries /
"Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Portugués |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2020.
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| Edición: | English-language edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire's life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion"-- |
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| Notas: | "Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 by Unicamp, Brazil." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 506 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 178920707X 9781789207071 |