Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects: The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries

by Diogo Ramada Curto

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789207061
• ISBN13: 9781789207064
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"