High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe is a crumbling but imposing remnant of Portuguese colonial ambition. Built in 1604, this stone bastion played a central ...
LOWELL - Portuguese historian and researcher José Pedro Monteiro, who is currently a visiting professor a Brown University, will be examining in a webinar how events, processes and actors challenged ...
At first glance, processes of colonial policy and subsequent migratory flows at the Angola–South West Africa border, in the region of the Kunene river, seem to present a straightforward narrative. In ...
Today, Portugal is only a small European country, but it used to be one of the world’s largest and longest-lived maritime empires. The most well-known of its former colonies is Brazil. Many African ...
Jessica O'Leary works for Monash University, a partner of The Conversation. Standing before the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal in 1556, Mónica Fernandes, a woman from the coast of modern-day Ghana, ...
European occupation and trade in the colonial era irreversibly transformed the global distribution of plants, leaving a legacy that can still be seen today. The expansion of European empires from the ...
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