Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building

Polónia, Amélia

doi:10.1057/9781137447463_12

Law, Labour and Empire 2015

DOI: 10.1057/9781137447463_12

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Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building

Amélia Polónia¹

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“…We have to understand informal and non-institutionalized mechanisms of empire building and thus also scrutinize the agency of individuals and networks belonging to societies, cultures and communities of contact, in Africa, Asia and America (Polónia and Antunes 2017;Antunes and Polónia 2016).…”

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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion

Polónia¹

2022

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Historical interpretation of Portuguese Overseas Expansion has changed considerably from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ideological appropriations of historical events are commonplace. The propaganda of the regime of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar extensively used the topic of Portuguese Overseas Expansion as a founding myth for justifying its own colonialism, even in times when decolonization processes were the common trend. Damnatio memoriae, on the one hand, and apologetics, on the other, were strategies spread from primary school textbooks to university programmes. They were responsible for the exclusion and even persecution of many Portuguese scholars, who had to ask for refuge in other European Universities. It created myths, for example around Henry the Navigator or the Nautical School of Sagres. Key-personalities, such as Magellan, were long defamed as anti-heroes. This article will show how these myths and twisted interpretations are still commonplace today. Even now, many Portuguese feel that, in times of crises, these fictions are used to create a sense of national identity and self-confidence.

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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion

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2022

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“…Other studies have highlighted alternative means of information and knowledge production. In some cases, these were beyond the control of the State and, instead of being dependent on cooperative efforts, were based on cheats and systematic defects (Polónia, ). Unlike these studies, I do not consider private initiatives here.…”

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Charts for an empire. A global trading zone in early modern Portuguese nautical cartography

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2018

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The global phenomenon of maritime expansion and the measures of control imposed by the interventionism of the Iberian crowns generated a context that sheds light on the Zilselian issue: the contact between artisans and university-trained men in early modern Europe. This is an old and controversial topic. However, this article does not focus solely on the economic and social reasons for this contact, but also on epistemological and political motivations. With the specific aim of illustrating this collaboration, the article analyses some of the empirical practices developed under the Portuguese maritime empire throughout the 16th century. This is achieved through the reconstruction of the process of production of nautical charts in the Armazéns da Guiné e Índia (Storehouse of Guinea and Indies) of Lisbon, which I consider a large-scale "trading zone." This reconstruction throws light not only on the technical complexity of these cognitive processes and the coordinated work of the different agents involved in their production, but also on the emergence of new spaces of knowledge and new communities of practitioners (with new professional statuses) linked to them; new methods of collection and management of information; and, finally, new forms of circulation and standardization of knowledge in the early modern period. K E Y W O R D S Armazéns da Guiné e Índia, cosmographers, nautical charts, pilots, Portugal

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Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building

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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion

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