Bibliograph

Imperial culture and colonial projects, the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Diogo Ramada Curto ; translated by Alison Aiken

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Label

Imperial culture and colonial projects, the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Diogo Ramada Curto ; translated by Alison Aiken

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imperial culture and colonial projects

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1149307618

Responsibility statement

Diogo Ramada Curto ; translated by Alison Aiken

Series statement

Ebsco eBook Collection

Sub title

the Portuguese-speaking world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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