Title
Emigration and the sea [electronic resource] : an alternative history of Portugal and the Portuguese / Malyn Newitt.
ISBN
9780190492168 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190263935 doi
Call Number
DP538 .N49 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
946.9
Summary
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 continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole languages and indigenized Portuguese culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries these were joined by millions of economic migrants who established Portuguese settlements in Europe, North America, Venezuela and South Africa - and in less likely places, including Bermuda, Guyana and Hawaii. Interwoven within this global history of the diaspora are stories of the Portuguese who left mainland Portugal and the islands, the lives of the Sephardic Jews, the African slaves imported into the Atlantic Islands and Brazil and the Goans who later spread along the imperial highways of Portugal and Britain. much of Portugal's contribution to science and the arts, as well as its influence in the modern world, can be attributed to the members of these widely scattered Portuguese communities, and these are given their due in Newitt's engrossing volume. -- book jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
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.
