Inventos e varios planos de melhoramento para este reino, escriptos nas prisões da Junqueira. [Edited by Antonio Ribeiro Saraiva.]
Author: Bento de MOURA PORTUGAL
Publisher:
Published: 1821
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
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Science and Polity in France
Author: Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-01-10
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1400824613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.
Imperial Migrations
Author: E. Morier-Genoud
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1137265000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.
Science Reorganized
Author: James Edward McClellan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780231059961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood and Urbanism
Author: Susan Parham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0857854747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it is impossible to create truly resilient and convivial urbanism. Moving from the table and home garden to the town, city, and suburbs, Food and Urbanism explores the connections between food and place in past and present design practices. The book also looks to future methods for extending the 'gastronomic' possibilities of urban space. Supported by examples from places across the world, including the UK, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Australia and the USA, the book offers insights into how the interplay of physical design and socio-spatial practices centred around food can help to maintain socially rich, productive and sustainable urban space. Susan Parham brings together the latest research from a number of disciplines – urban planning, food studies, sociology, geography, and design – with her own fieldwork on a range of foodscapes to highlight the fundamental role food has to play in shaping the urban future.
Transnational Challenges to National History Writing
Author: M. Middell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230500075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced.
The Colours of the Empire
Author: Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0857457632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of ‘race’. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for ‘race’, a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analysis of government documents, colonial propaganda materials and interviews, the author employs an anthropological perspective to examine how the existence of racist theories, originating in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, went on to inform the policy of the Estado Novo (Second Republic, 1933–1974) and the production of academic literature on ‘race’ in Portugal. This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.
The Freedom of the Migrant
Author: Vilem Flusser
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003-04-02
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780252028175
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Hotel Trópico
Author: Jerry Dávila
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010-08-03
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0822393441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a “racial democracy,” a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a “lusotropical” identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil’s ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of “Africans of every color,” compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Dávila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.
Abstract Sex
Author: Luciana Parisi
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAstract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.
