Livros
Novas aquisições / incorporações
Lázaro, J. (2024). Na Teia da Aranha: debate público, mobilização e internacionalismo no movimento operário português (1865-1877). Edições Afrontamento. 332 pp.
Resumo
Ao estabelecer a baliza cronológica entre o Primeiro Congresso Social (1865) e o Primeiro Congresso dos Operários Socialistas de Portugal (1877), João Lázaro consegue identificar as diversas ruturas e mobilizações nas organizações dos trabalhadores, o impacto na esfera pública e abordar a correspondência entre Portugal, Karl Marx e Engels. O autor desenvolve uma interessante tese sobre o surgimento de uma teia de aranha internacionalista em Portugal que coloca desafios transnacionais aos socialistas. Como salienta no prefácio a professora Fátima Sá: «O livro que aqui se apresenta é um livro que fazia falta. Fazia falta aos historiadores que trabalham sobre o século XIX, aos que estudam movimentos sociais, e, naturalmente, àqueles cujo foco é o movimento operário. Fazia falta, igualmente, ao chamado “leitor comum”, ou melhor, ao vasto universo dos leitores que, fora da academia, se interessam pela disciplina da história em geral e por estes temas em particular, sendo muitos vezes olimpicamente ignorados pelos historiadores».
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-10
SAMPAYO, Luiz Teixeira de (2001). Compilação de elementos para o estudo da questão de Olivença (Perda desta Praça e Diligências para a Reaver). [S.l.]: Grupo dos Amigos de Olivença. 384 pp.
Resumo
O presente trabalho de Luiz Teixeira de Sampayo (investigador, Embaixador e Secretário Geral do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros) constitui uma exposição sucinta, mas muito bem documentada, sobre as diligências feitas pelas autoridades portuguesas, após o Congresso de Viena, para reaver a pose da Vila de Olivença e o seu termo, cedidas a Espanha pelo tratado de 6 de junho de 1801. Introdução do Embaixador José Calvet de Magalhães. Transcrição documental, notas, sumários, bibliografia e índices por Mário Rodrigues. Posfácio de Humberto Nuno de Oliveira.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-9
Fracchia, C. (2019). ‘Black But Human’: Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700. Oxford University Press. 232 pp.
Resumo
‘Black but Human’ is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb ‘Black but Human’ is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and liberated Africans, and at the same time provides material for critical and emancipatory practices by Afro-Hispanics themselves.
The African presence in the Iberian Peninsula between the late fifteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century was as a result of the institutionalization of the local and transatlantic slave trades. In addition to the Moors, Berbers and Turks born as slaves, there were approximately two million enslaved people in the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon and Portugal. The ‘Black but Human’ topos that emerges from the African work songs and poems written by Afro-Hispanics encodes the multi-layered processes through which a black emancipatory subject emerges and a ‘black nation’ forges a collective resistance. It is visually articulated by Afro-Hispanic and Spanish artists in religious paintings and in the genres of self-portraiture and portraiture. This extraordinary imagery coexists with the stereotypical representations of African slaves and ex-slaves by Spanish sculptors, engravers, jewellers, and painters mainly in the religious visual form and by European draftsmen and miniaturists, in their landscape drawings and sketches for costume books.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-5
Rowe, E. K. (2019). Black saints in early modern global Catholicism. Cambridge University Press. 293 pp.
Resumo
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Spanish and Portuguese monarchs launched global campaigns for territory and trade. This process spurred two efforts that reshaped the world: missions to spread Christianity to the four corners of the globe, and the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. These efforts joined in unexpected ways to give rise to black saints. Erin Kathleen Rowe presents the untold story of how black saints – and the slaves who venerated them – transformed the early modern church. By exploring race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, she provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority. Rowe transforms our understanding of global devotional patterns and their effects on early modern societies by looking at previously unstudied sculptures and paintings of black saints, examining the impact of black lay communities, and analysing controversies unfolding in the church about race, moral potential, enslavement, and salvation.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-8
Rodrigues, A., & Maia, M. (Org.)(2023). Sacerdotisas voduns e rainhas do Rosário: Mulheres africanas e Inquisição em Minas Gerais (século XVIII). Chão Editora. 191 pp.
Resumo
Sacerdotisas voduns e rainhas do Rosário: mulheres africanas e Inquisição em Minas Gerais (século xviii) reúne transcrições de documentos inéditos sobre a vida e as crenças de mulheres africanas perseguidas no Brasil por forças militares e pela Inquisição. Essas mulheres pertenciam a grupos étnicos que habitavam a região da África ocidental chamada pelos portugueses de Costa da Mina. Escravizadas e trazidas para o Brasil, algumas se tornaram lideranças de comunidades negras na posição de sacerdotisas voduns (vodúnsis), ao mesmo tempo que exerciam cargos de juízas e rainhas da irmandade católica de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos — a principal confraria negra mineira. Os manuscritos dos processos contra as sacerdotisas foram localizados em Portugal no Arquivo da Torre do Tombo, entre os códices do Tribunal da Inquisição de Lisboa. O primeiro, de 1747, descreve um complexo culto em Paracatu (mg) dedicado ao “Deus da Terra de Courá”. O segundo e o terceiro referem-se a Ângela Gomes, “mestra” de práticas rituais africanas na comarca de Ouro Preto, coroada como rainha do Rosário. O quarto, datado de 1759, oferece detalhes sobre as práticas de Teresa Rodrigues e Manoel mina na comarca de Sabará. Sacerdotisas voduns e rainhas do Rosário inclui também papéis preservados nos arquivos históricos de Minas Gerais. Embora registrados por agentes do Império português, os depoimentos reproduzidos nos processos desvelam a multiplicidade de vozes e das trajetórias de vida das mulheres africanas, evidenciando a ideologia e a violência do racismo religioso.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-4
Davies, O. (Ed.). (2023). The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic. Oxford University Press. 325 pp.
Resumo
This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practices, the rise of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch. The book also focuses on the more recent history of witchcraft and magic, from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring the rise of modern magic, the anthropology of magic around the globe, and finally the cinematic portrayal of witches and magicians, from The Wizard of Oz to Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-3
Cruz, B. L.; Brás, D. M. (2024). Sustentabilidade: um desafio coletivo. Lisboa : Tinta da China. 232 pp.
Resumo
O tecido empresarial português de média e pequena dimensão, do qual depende directamente cerca de 80% da força de trabalho em Portugal, por todas as pressões a que está sujeito, deve ser o maior mobilizador de esforços de cooperação e entreajuda com vista a um desenvolvimento mais sustentável. Um país mais próspero, capaz de criar mais riqueza, de ser mais equitativo e que promove um novo modelo de desenvolvimento económico, social e ambiental garante de um futuro saudável às gerações vindouras, só se consegue a partir de um esforço colectivo incluindo governos, comunidade científica, empresas, cidadãos, movimentos da sociedade civil e investidores. Às empresas pede‑se que se posicionem no sentido de garantir uma maior adaptação ao mercado, um incremento nos seus níveis de responsabilidade, que se mantenham competitivas e assumam como propósito servir o conjunto das suas partes interessadas — accionistas, clientes, colaboradores, consumidores e as comunidades em que operam. Estes são alguns dos elementos de base de uma Estratégia ESG (Environment, Social and Governance na sigla inglesa) para as PME que esta publicação procura apresentar.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-2
Giraudet, L. (2022). Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400-50. Brepols Publishers. 327 pp.
Resumo
Public Opinion and Political Contest presents an important historiographical intervention regarding the emergence of larger political publics during the fifteenth century. The study analyses political interaction and public opinion in medieval Europe’s largest city through the lens of the only continuous narrative source compiled in Paris during the early fifteenth century, the well-known Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris. Examining one of the most turbulent periods in Paris’ history, which witnessed civil conflict and English occupation, the monograph contributes substantially to understandings of late medieval popular opinion conceptually and empirically, revealing Parisian groups bound by shared idioms and assumptions engaging with supralocal movements. Through an assessment of contemporary reactions to official communication, protest in public space, rumour and civic ceremony, the book presents a timely mirror to themes in flux today, addressing historiographical conclusions that have relegated premodern societies from considerations of the public sphere. As a result, this nuanced assessment of the Journal d’un bourgeois de Paris reveals how access to informational media and forums for discussion bound Parisians and framed a wider commentary upon political issues beyond the highest echelons of medieval society.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 25-6-1
Ekama, K., Hellman, L., & van Rossum, M. (2022). Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour (p. 277). De Gruyter. 274 pp.
Resumo
The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based – either outright or implicitly – on a model of northern European wage labour. This book constitutes an attempt to re-centre that story to Asia. With studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of Central Asia to the islands of South East Asia and Japan, and ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, this book tracks coercion in diverse forms, tracing both similarities and differences – as well as connections – between systems of coercion, from early sales regulations to post-abolition labour contracts. Deep empirical case studies, as well as comparisons between the chapters, all show that while coercion was entrenched in a number of societies, it was so in different and shifting ways. This book thus not only shows the history of slavery and coercion in Asia as a connected story, but also lays the groundwork for global studies of a phenomenon as varying, manifold and contested as coercion.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-34
Thornton, John K. (2024). O Santo António Congolês: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita e o movimento antoniano, 1684-1707. Centro de Estudos de Investigação de Santo António. 219 pp.
Resumo
Este livro descreve o movimento religioso cristão liderado por Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita no Reino do Kongo, desde o seu nascimento em 1684 até à sua morte, na fogueira, em 1706, apenas dois anos após o início do movimento. Beatriz, uma jovem mulher que afirmava estar possuída por Santo António, argumentava que Jesus era Kongolês e criticava os missionários capuchinhos italianos no seu país por não apoiarem santos negros. O movimento era, em grande parte, um movimento pacifista, com seguidores entre o povo comum, que tentava pôr fim ao devastador ciclo de guerras civis entre os pretendentes ao trono do Kongo, que alimentava o crescente comércio de escravos no Atlântico. Thornton fornece informações de fundo sobre o Reino do Kongo, o desenvolvimento do catolicismo no Kongo desde 1491, a natureza e o papel das guerras locais no comércio atlântico de escravos e a vida quotidiana da época, além de esboçar as vidas de algumas personalidades locais. John Thornton é Professor de História na Universidade de Millersville, na Pensilvânia. Lecionou na Universidade da Zâmbia, no Allegheny College e na Universidade da Virgínia.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-31
Krass, U. (Ed.) (2017). Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century). Diaphanes. 309 pp.
Resumo
Images have always played a vital role in political communication and in the visualization of power structures and hierarchies. They gain even more importance in situations where non-verbal communication prevails: In the negotiation processes between two (or more) different cultures, the language of the visual is often thought of as the most effective way to acquaint (and overpower) the others with one’s own principles, beliefs, and value systems. Scores of these asymmetrical exchange situations have taken place in the Portuguese overseas empire since its gradual expansion in the 16th century.
This book offers new insights into the broad and differentiated spectrum of functions images could assume in political contexts in those areas dominated by the Portuguese in early modern times. How were objects and artifacts staged and handled to generate new layers of meaning and visualize political ideas and concepts? And what were the respective reasons, means, and effects of the visualization of Portuguese power and politics?
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-32
- Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570)09 de Setembro de 2024
Boillet, É., & Johnson, I. (Eds.)(2023). Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570): Bridging the Historiographical Divides. Brepols. 275 pp.
Abstract
This volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the laity (and those in holy orders) in the religious transformations characterizing the ‘long fifteenth century’ from the flourishing of the Devotio Moderna to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Recent historiography has described the Christian church of the fifteenth century as a world of ‘multiple options’, in which the laity was engaged with the clergy in a process of communication and negotiation leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of religious life. The religious manifestations of such ‘new communities of interpretation’ appear in an array of biblical and religious texts which widely circulated in manuscript before benefiting from the new print media.
This collection casts a spectrum of new yet profoundly historical light on themes of seminal relevance to present-day European society by analysing patterns of inclusion and exclusion, and examining shifts in hierarchic and non-hierarchic relations articulated through religious practices, texts, and other phenomena featuring in the lives of groups and individuals. The academic team assembled for this collection is internationally European as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in its methodology.
CCHSC library reference: 24-6-27
- The Voice of the People? Political Participation before the Revolutions09 de Setembro de 2024
Blockmans, W. (2024). The Voice of the People?: Political Participation Before the Revolutions. Taylor & Francis. 440 pp.
Resumo
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states.
This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-28
Boillet, É., & Johnson, I. (Eds.)(2023). Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570): Bridging the Historiographical Divides. Brepols. 275 pp.
Abstract
This volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the laity (and those in holy orders) in the religious transformations characterizing the ‘long fifteenth century’ from the flourishing of the Devotio Moderna to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Recent historiography has described the Christian church of the fifteenth century as a world of ‘multiple options’, in which the laity was engaged with the clergy in a process of communication and negotiation leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of religious life. The religious manifestations of such ‘new communities of interpretation’ appear in an array of biblical and religious texts which widely circulated in manuscript before benefiting from the new print media.
This collection casts a spectrum of new yet profoundly historical light on themes of seminal relevance to present-day European society by analysing patterns of inclusion and exclusion, and examining shifts in hierarchic and non-hierarchic relations articulated through religious practices, texts, and other phenomena featuring in the lives of groups and individuals. The academic team assembled for this collection is internationally European as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in its methodology.
CCHSC library reference: 24-6-27
Blockmans, W. (2024). The Voice of the People?: Political Participation Before the Revolutions. Taylor & Francis. 440 pp.
Resumo
Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states.
This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-28