Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1419-1825
Title | Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1419-1825 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ralph Boxer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Portugal |
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Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825
Title | Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Ralph Boxer |
Publisher | Oxford, Clarendon P |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Indigenous peoples |
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Three lectures given at the University of Virginia in November, 1962.
Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825
Title | Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 PDF eBook |
Author | David P. Gauthier |
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Pages | |
Release | 1963 |
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Race Relations in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1825
Title | Race Relations in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1825 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles R. Boxer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1963 |
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Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies
Title | Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Halikowski Smith |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2011-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004190481 |
This book examines the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period in which Portuguese power in the region declined. The analysis turns on the creolization and diaspora that affected this community, as well as problems with international trade, the Christian conversion process, and European rivalries.
The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900
Title | The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | George Reid Andrews |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
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The Mandaean Book of John
Title | The Mandaean Book of John PDF eBook |
Author | Charles G. Häberl |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2019-11-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110487861 |
Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.