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For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and
departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions,
behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its
miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in
many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and
resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters
grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early
Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event,
interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an
introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The
three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (Joao Luis Cardoso,
Carlos Fabiao, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Catia Antunes and
Antonio Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and
analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese
territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of
encounter and dis-encounter in todays global world. The history
presented gives special attention to the world that moulded
Portugal and the Portuguese, and to the ways Portugal configured
the world. It seeks to identify and understand the transversal
entanglements of historic impact and the impulses these gave to the
construction of Portugal and the world. Contemporary reflection and
academic scholarship on the global history of leading nations has
stimulated a rethinking of the past and a more comprehensive
recognition of legacy. Historians can no longer overlook the wider
world with which their country of investigation has interacted.
Portugals role in the dynamic circulation of peoples and ideas
makes it global history not only unique by way of what took place
but also in terms of a potential academic template for better
understanding of how the past shapes the present, and more
particularly the importance of acknowledging a countrys past
historic mis-steps and how these are dealt with by contemporary
populations.
For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and
departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions,
behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its
miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in
many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and
resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters
grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early
Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event,
interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an
introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The
three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (Joao Luis Cardoso,
Carlos Fabiao, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Catia Antunes and
Antonio Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and
analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese
territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of
encounter and dis-encounter in todays global world. The history
presented gives special attention to the world that moulded
Portugal and the Portuguese, and to the ways Portugal configured
the world. It seeks to identify and understand the transversal
entanglements of historic impact and the impulses these gave to the
construction of Portugal and the world. Contemporary reflection and
academic scholarship on the global history of leading nations has
stimulated a rethinking of the past and a more comprehensive
recognition of legacy. Historians can no longer overlook the wider
world with which their country of investigation has interacted.
Portugals role in the dynamic circulation of peoples and ideas
makes it global history not only unique by way of what took place
but also in terms of a potential academic template for better
understanding of how the past shapes the present, and more
particularly the importance of acknowledging a countrys past
historic mis-steps and how these are dealt with by contemporary
populations.
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