Support for Research Publications - Books published abroad

• Abstract

  The book "Blacksmiths of Ilamba. A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th century)" analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior of Angola, in the 18th-century. The Portuguese Enlightenment encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the colonial plans fac…

  Blacksmiths of Ilamba: a social history of labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century), PUB.LVR.EXT

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  Funding for the publication of the book in English A blond Pele: Cold War and João Havelange election to FIFA presidency. The book is based on a dissertation, supported by FAPESP. The thesis won second place at the Premio História Social, had already been published in Portuguese by Editora Intermeios. The author was invited to publish the book in a European publisher, which has an importa…

  A blond Pele: Cold War and João Havelange election to FIFA presidency, PUB.LVR.EXT

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  Prime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of António de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure ofthe Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; some consider him more authoritarian than his predecessor, others more liberal. After providing backgro…

  Marcello Caetano, a biography (1906-1980), PUB.LVR.EXT

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)