BOOK: Antonio Manuel HESPANA, Filhos da Terra. Mestizos Identities at the Margins of Portuguese Imperial Expansion (ed. Cátia A.P. ANTUNES/transl. Noelle RICHARDSON) [European Expansion and Indigenous Response, ed. George Bryan SOUZA; 45] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2021), 421 p. ISBN 978-90-04-71350-5, € 135

 

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Abstract:

Filhos da Terra narrates the history over time of the so-called ‘Portuguese communities’ living outside the boundaries of the Portuguese Empire but identified locally and by other European empires as ‘Portuguese’. Concepts such as ‘tribe’, ‘diaspora’, and ‘society of métissage’ have been widely used to define these groups.

On the author, editor and contributors:

Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.  António Manuel Hespanha was Professor of Legal History and Theory of Law at the Faculty of Law, Nova University of Lisbon. His major work As Vésperas do Leviathan (1986) was groundbreaking in establishing a new history of the political institutions and of the nature of the State in Portugal in the Early Modern period. A prolific writer, he was guest professor at Yale University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Macau and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He was also the General Commissioner for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries Committee (1995-1998). For all his academic, intellectual, and political contributions, he was awarded the honor of Grand Official of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada (2000) by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio.

Table of contents:

General Series Editor’s Preface
List of Illustrations
Foreword: Filhos da Terra in English – The Raison D’Être [OPEN ACCESS]
The Legal Dimensions of Empire: Filhos da Terra and the Normative Order [OPEN ACCESS]
Portuguese Identity, Métissage and Liminality  [OPEN ACCESS]
Translator’s Note [OPEN ACCESS]
Glossary [OPEN ACCESS]

Introduction
 1 A ‘Portuguese’ Identity?
 2 The Analytical Perspective

1 Chapter title to be come
 1 The Portuguese ‘Informal Empire’
 2 The ‘Shadow Empire’
 3 Developments in the ‘Historiography of the Atlantic’

2 Chapter title to be come
 1 Methodological Approaches in the Historiography of the ‘Informal Empire’
 2 Notes of Caution
 3 Observing Identity: Methodological Questions

3 Chapter title to be come
 1 The ‘Provinces of the Shadow Empire
 2 Guinea
 3 The Americas
 4 Angola
 5 Mozambique
 6 The Indian Ocean and South Asia
 7 Mainland Southeast Asia
 8 The Far East

4 Chapter title to be come
 1 The ‘Portuguese Tribe’

5 Chapter title to be come
 1 Power and Governance in the ‘Shadow Empire’

6 Chapter title to be come
 1 Questions of Identity: External Differentiation and Internal Homogeneity

7 Chapter title to be come
 1 The Universalism of the Portuguese

Afterthoughts: Conversing about Diversity in Empire

Bibliography
Index  [OPEN ACCESS]

Read more here: DOI 10.1163/9789004713512.