The Portuguese Empire: Australia’s Forward Defence from 1961–1972

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lee
Keyword(s):  
Portuguese Empire

THE ALLIED NEUTRAL? PORTUGUESE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS WITH THE UK AND GERMANY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-110
Author(s):  
Eric Golson
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Third Party ◽  
World War ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
Active Choice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second World

ABSTRACTIn September 1939, Portugal made a realist strategic choice to preserve the Portuguese Empire maintaining by its neutrality and also remaining an ally of Great Britain. While the Portuguese could rely largely on their colonies for raw materials to sustain the mainland, the country had long depended on British transportation for these goods and the Portuguese military. With the British priority now given to war transportation, Portugal's economy and Empire were particularly vulnerable. The Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar sought to mitigate this damage by maintaining particularly friendly financial relations with the British government, including increased exports of Portuguese merchandise and services and permission to accumulate credits in Sterling to cover deficits in the balance of payments. This paper gives an improved set of comprehensive statistics for the Anglo-Portuguese and German–Portuguese relationships, reported in Pounds and according to international standards. The reported statistics include the trade in merchandise, services, capital flows, loans and third-party transfers of funds in favour of the British account. When compared with the German statistics, the Anglo-Portuguese figures show the Portuguese government favoured the British in financial relations, an active choice by Salazar to maintain the Portuguese Empire.

(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Claudia Gastrow
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Portuguese Empire

Review of: (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017) Oxford: Peter Lang, 287 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78707-318-0, p/bk, $33

The Casa da Índia and the Emergence of a Science of Administration in the Portuguese Empire

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ângela Barreto Xavier
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Portuguese Empire ◽  
And Storage ◽  
At Home

Abstract The role played by archives in the making of a Portuguese science of imperial administration is scarcely known. Systematic research is still lacking on what literature suggests was a critical dimension in the management of the empire. By focusing on the Casa da Índia’s activities of production, record-keeping and retrieving of information and knowledge, this study intends to contribute to a better understanding of the links between empire and Portuguese early-modern archival experiences. For more than a century, the Casa da Índia was the institution responsible for the circulation and storage of commodities, information and people within the Portuguese empire, as well as the payment of duties and taxes. What challenges did territorial expansion entail for the Portuguese monarchy, and, in particular, for its archival organization and practices? How did the Casa da Índia register these imperial dynamics? Did its archive materialize the Empire at home? Finally, was its archive relevant to the emergence of a Portuguese science of imperial administration?

scholarly journals Recensão Media and the Portuguese Empire

2019 ◽  
Vol LIV (232) ◽  
pp. 628-631
Author(s):  
Júlia Leitão de Barros
Keyword(s):  
Portuguese Empire
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