Christoph Kalter examines how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of ‘returning’ settlers from Portuguese Africa. Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences […]
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Book |Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal| by Christoph Kalter – Editor’s Note
Posted on 26 May 2022.
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, WorldComments Off on Book |Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal| by Christoph Kalter – Editor’s Note
Book: ‘Two Nights in Lisbon: A Novel’ by Chris Pavone – Editor’s Note
Posted on 24 May 2022.
Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone―no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then […]
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Top diplomat: João Vale de Almeida facing divisive task – North Ireland
Posted on 24 May 2022.
By Len Port João Vale de Almeida, the distinguished Portuguese diplomat, currently serving as the European Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is facing the extremely challenging task of trying to reconcile all sides to the bitterly divisive Northern Ireland protocol. Born in Lisbon, he graduated from Lisbon University with a degree in history and then […]
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Faith & Feast: Festa do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres 2022 – Azores
Posted on 17 May 2022.
The religious celebrations of the 2022 Festa do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres, [The Holy Feast of Christ of the Miracles] will be held on the weekend of May 21-22, in Ponta Delgada city, on São Miguel, Azores. This year’s full calendar of celebrations will fall between Friday (20th) and the Thursday (the 26th) to […]
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Book | Cantigas: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems| by Richard Zenith (Translator) – Editor’s Note
Posted on 17 May 2022.
The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In […]
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Book: ‘The Global History of Portugal’ by Carlos D. Fiolhais & José E. Franco – Editor’s Note
Posted on 15 May 2022.
For thousands of years Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions, and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering, and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: […]
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