Emigration and the sea : an alternative history of Portugal and the Portuguese /
Today, Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese "discoveries" of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every contin...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Emigrations, Diasporas and people on the move
- Points of departure: Portugal from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
- Points of departure: the Atlantic Islands
- The diaspora of the Sephardic Jews
- Portuguese migration and settlement in Asia
- The Portuguese in Brazil
- Portuguese emigration in the twentieth century
- The Portuguese diaspora in Europe
- The Caribbean, Canada and South America
- The Portuguese diaspora in the United States
- Portuguese emigration to Africa
- The Portuguese and the sea.