Professor Peter Cain, Professor Emeritus in History - Sheffield Hallam University, visit to UNICAMP

• Grant number: 09/08296-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Duration: August 25, 2009 - September 09, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: José Jobson de Andrade Arruda
• Grantee: José Jobson de Andrade Arruda
• Visiting researcher: Peter Cain
• Visiting researcher institution: Sheffield Hallam University, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Economia (IE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Peter Cain, Professor Emeritus in History, Sheffield Hallam University, is a great authority on the matter of the British Empire (origins, development and crisis), evolution of world economy and international rivalries along the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century. He will have knowledge of the research project financed by FAPESP ("Dimensões do Império português: investigação sobre as estruturas e dinâmicas do antigo sistema colonial", 04/10367-0) and contribute to its development. (AU)