Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2000

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2000

A night at the opera: a glimpse at some eighteenth-century theatricals.(Opera Review)
January 1, 2000... From the moment that they were first performed in the 1730s, the eight operas of Antonio Jose da Silva found great favour with his audiences. In the short term, this very popularity seems to have led, however, to their being squirrelled away....

Garrett's Camoes.
January 1, 2000... I should start by mentioning that I am not a 'garrettiana' (a Garrett specialist) in the sense that one might be said to be a 'pessoana' (a Pessoa specialist). I am not sufficiently acquainted with Almeida Garrett's extensive euvre, which...

Carlos Gomes' Il Guarany: the Frontiers of Miscegenation in nineteenth-century grand opera.
January 1, 2000... On 2 December 1870, Emperor Pedro II's forty-fifth birthday, the Rio de Janeiro premiere of Antonio Carlos Gomes' Il Guarany was hailed rapturously by an audience of the well-to-do and the aristocratic colonial elite. (1) In the opera, which is...

Homo Ludens and Esau e Jaco, Homo Economicus and Hard Times: literary representations of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie.(analysis of characters in works of Johan Huizinga, Ian Watt, Machado de Assis)
January 1, 2000... Roberto Schwarz, em Ao vencedor as batatas [...] e Raymundo Faoro em Machado de Assis, a piramide e o trapezio [...] demonstram de que modo as novelas de Jose de Alencar (1829-1877) e Machado de Assis (1839-1908) revelam tracos da burguesia...

A prisoner of liberalism: the strange case of J. P. Oliveira Martins.(Biography)
January 1, 2000... The political pedigree of J. P. Oliveira Martins (b. Lisbon, 1845; d. Lisbon, 1894), the well-known author of the best-sellers Historia da Civilizacao Iberica (1878), Historia de Portugal (1879) and Portugal Contemporaneo (1881), was never easy...

European empires in the east during the early modern period seminar papers.
January 1, 2000... Introduction DIOGO RAMADA CURTO Studies of European Expansion in the East during the Early Modern Period can no longer accommodate the outdated Eurocentric agenda for explaining the rise of the West. This becomes patently clear when...

In Finibus Terrae: Alonso Sanchez and the limits of intellectual autonomy.(Biography)
January 1, 2000... Alonso Sanchez, Jesuit Broker A basic problem in comparative analyses of historical interactions is an inevitable focus on large social groups and structures. The macro scale of such studies often leads to generalizations that do a...

A Vinha do Senhor: the Portuguese Jesuits in China in the seventeenth century.
January 1, 2000... In the past few years some of the most intriguing new research in the field of early modern history has been grouped under the rubric of intercultural communication. Recent trends in international migration and a pervasive sense of a global...

Rupture and continuity in colonial discourses: the racialized representation of Portuguese Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
January 1, 2000... To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it 'the way it really was'. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. (Walter Benjamin, Thesis on the Philosophy of History) On 25 January...

Constantino: a tragedy in five parts.(Biography)
January 1, 2000... Prologue On a day in December 1736 a twenty-eight-year-old secular priest was called before the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Goa. Worn out from spending the better part of a year in prison, Father Constantino Joao Rodrigues presented...

Companies, mercantilism and the development of seventeenth-century .
January 1, 2000... The turn of the seventeenth century witnessed dramatic new developments in the structure of European trade in the Indian Ocean. The century-old reign of the Portuguese Estado da India was put to the test as a series of Dutch and English...

From Livorno to Goa and back: merchant networks and the coral-diamond trade in the early-eighteenth century.
January 1, 2000... A Case-Study On 20 January 1713, the Ergas and Silvera partnership from the Mediterranean port of Livorno addressed a letter to Gopala e Nilea Camotim in Goa, members of a local merchant elite. Upon the recommendation of a relative, they...

Rethinking imperialism in a comparative context: early modern British and Russian expansion in Asia.
January 1, 2000... As the ambition of the sovereign must entrench on the luxury of individuals; so the luxury of individuals must diminish the force, and check the ambition of the sovereign [...] The same method of reasoning will let us see the advantages of...

Towards a new imperialism in eighteenth-century India: Dupleix, La Bourdonnais and the French compagnie des Indes.
January 1, 2000... In the popular mind India is bound up with British colonialism. In fact, before the 1750s several countries, through companies of trade, had colonial ventures in India. Furthermore, these colonial outposts coexisted in a state of relative...

The mapping of empire: French and British cartographies of India in the late-eighteenth century.
January 1, 2000... When I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth and when I saw one...

Imagining empire: Company, Crown and Bengal in the formation of British imperial ideology, 1757-84.
January 1, 2000... We are men of power, you say, and take advantage of it. Why, man, what is the use of station if we are not to benefit from it? (Governor Henry Vansittart, 1771) (1) By 1783, the English East India Company constituted Europe's third...

Bibliographic and research information.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2000... The following pages comprise a list of publications and theses, in English, relating to the Portuguese-speaking world. For the most part, the items were published or presented in the period 1998 to early 2000. Where it is known, the ISBN...

Introductory note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2000... It is with great sadness that we register the death of Professor Charles Boxer on 27 April 2000. As a former Camoens Professor at King's College London Charles Boxer supported this journal from the outset, having generously agreed to be a...

The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Ed. by ROBERT M. LEVINE & JOSE CARLOS SEBE BOM MEIHY. Trans. by NANCY P. S. NARO & CRISTINA MEHRTENS: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 224 pp. Hard cover, 39.95 [pounds...

Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process.(Book Review)
January 1, 2000... Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process. Human Rights Watch. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999. 205 pp. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. The Lusaka Peace Accord, signed in 1994, was meant to usher in a properly supervised...