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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newitt, M. D. D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
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.