Books
New acquisitions / incorporations
Abstract
By establishing the chronological framework between the First Social Congress (1865) and the First Congress of Socialist Workers of Portugal (1877), João Lázaro successfully identifies the various ruptures and mobilizations within workers’ organizations, their impact on the public sphere, and examines the correspondence between Portugal, Karl Marx, and Engels. The author develops a compelling thesis about the emergence of an internationalist web in Portugal, which poses transnational challenges to socialists. As Professor Fátima Sá emphasizes in the preface: “The book presented here is one that was greatly needed. It was needed by historians working on the 19th century, those studying social movements, and, naturally, those focusing on the labor movement. It was also needed by the so-called ‘general reader,’ or rather, the vast universe of readers outside academia who are interested in the discipline of history in general and in these specific topics in particular, and who are often ignored with Olympian indifference by historians.”
CHSC library reference: 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.
Abstract
This work by Luiz Teixeira de Sampayo (researcher, Ambassador, and Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) offers a concise yet thoroughly documented account of the efforts undertaken by Portuguese authorities, following the Congress of Vienna, to reclaim possession of the town of Olivença and its surrounding territories, ceded to Spain by the treaty of June 6, 1801. Introduction by Ambassador José Calvet de Magalhães. Documentary transcription, notes, summaries, bibliography, and indexes by Mário Rodrigues. Afterword by Humberto Nuno de Oliveira.
CHSC library reference: 25-6-9
Fracchia, C. (2019). ‘Black But Human’: Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700. Oxford University Press. 232 pp.
Abstract
‘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.
CHSC library reference: 25-6-5
Rowe, E. K. (2019). Black saints in early modern global Catholicism. Cambridge University Press. 293 pp.
Abstract
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.
CHSC library reference: 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.
Abstract
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.
CHSC library reference: 25-6-4
Davies, O. (Ed.). (2023). The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic. Oxford University Press. 325 pp.
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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.
CHSC library reference: 25-6-3
Cruz, B. L.; BRÁS, D. M. (2024). Sustentabilidade: um desafio coletivo. Lisboa : Tinta da China. 232 pp.
Abstract
The Portuguese business fabric, comprised mainly of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), directly employs around 80% of the workforce in Portugal. Due to the various pressures it faces, this sector must become the key driver of cooperation and mutual support to achieve more sustainable development. A more prosperous country, capable of creating greater wealth, ensuring equity, and promoting a new model of economic, social, and environmental development that guarantees a healthy future for upcoming generations, can only be realized through a collective effort. This includes governments, the scientific community, businesses, citizens, civil society movements, and investors. Businesses are called upon to position themselves to ensure greater market adaptability, increased responsibility, competitiveness, and a commitment to serving their stakeholders — shareholders, customers, employees, consumers, and the communities in which they operate. These are some of the foundational elements of an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Strategy for SMEs, which this publication seeks to present.
CHSC library reference: 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.
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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.
CHSC library reference: 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.
Abstract
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.
CHSC library reference: 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.
Abstract
This book describes the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo, from her birth in 1684 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706, only two years after the movement had started. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by Saint Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common people, attempting to stop the devastating cycle of civil wars between contenders for the Kongolese throne that fed the growing Atlantic slave trade. Thornton supplies background information on the Kingdom of Kongo, the development of Catholicism in Kongo since 1491, the nature and role of local warfare in the Atlantic slave trade, and contemporary everyday life, as well as sketching the lives of some local personalities. John Thornton is Professor of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
CHSC library reference: 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.
Abstract
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?
CHSC library reference: 24-6-32
- Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570)09 September 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 September 2024
Blockmans, W. (2024). The Voice of the People?: Political Participation Before the Revolutions. Taylor & Francis.
Abstract
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.
CCHSC library reference: 24-6-28
- The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan05 September 2024
SOUSA, Lúcio de (2019). The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern
Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 594 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-36580-3.Abstract
In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-29
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.
Abstract
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.
CCHSC library reference: 24-6-28
SOUSA, Lúcio de (2019). The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern
Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 594 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-36580-3.
Abstract
In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.
Cota na Biblioteca do CHSC: 24-6-29