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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a
collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written
by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire
it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three
centuries. The contributions focus on the social, political, and
economic aspects of city life in settlements as far apart as Rio de
Janeiro, Mozambique Island, and Nagasaki. Despite the seeming (and
real) disparities between the colonial cities located in South
America, Africa, and Asia, this volume demonstrates that they
possessed a range of commonalities. Beyond their shared language,
these cities had similar social, religious, and political
institutions that shaped their identities. In many cases, the civic
bodies analyzed in these essays such as the city councils or the
MisericA(3)rdias (charitable brotherhoods), no less than the
convents and houses of Catholic religious orders, contributed more
to making these cities Portuguese than their allegiance to the
crown in Lisbon. Rather than dividing the globe into Atlantic and
Indian Ocean spheres, Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early
Modern World takes the novel approach of bringing together analyses
of the social history of these cities in order to stress their
shared aspects as well as to suggest paths for fruitful
comparisons. By encouraging further scholarship in this rich, yet
understudied subject, this collection will not only further
comparisons between cities found within the Portuguese empire, but
also raise important issues that will be of interest to historians
of other European empires, as well as urban historians generally.
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