This article examines the strategies and techniques used by foreign firms to encroach on the Portuguese Atlantic empire. It takes the Dutch firm De Bruijn & Cloots of Lisbon as a case study to analyse problems and solutions devised by foreign firms when expanding their trade operations to Brazilian ports. We analyse the variables that influenced their choice of agents and forms of agency, and the way in which p...
Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) refers to a pattern of internet use that results in negative consequences in an individual’s life. It encompasses a broad spectrum of activities, which require assessment in terms of both severity and diversity, for a comprehensive understanding. This study aimed to translate the Internet Severity and Activities Questionnaire (ISAAQ-10) into Portuguese, to analyze its psy...
A internet, ao potenciar comportamentos que se podem configurar como adições comportamentais, pode ter efeitos particularmente negativos em grupos vulneráveis que importa compreender melhor (Fineberg et al., 2018; Dores et al., 2021). Por se tratar de uma área recente, o reduzido número de instrumentos padronizados disponíveis para o seu estudo tem sido uma limitação, designadamente em Portugal. Este trabalho t...
Introdução: A internet, ao potenciar comportamentos que se podem configurar como adições comportamentais, pode ter efeitos particularmente negativos em grupos vulneráveis que importa compreender melhor (Fineberg et al., 2018; Dores et al., 2021). Por se tratar de uma área recente, o reduzido número de instrumentos padronizados disponíveis para o seu estudo tem sido uma limitação, designadamente em Portugal. Obj...
Este capítulo traça uma síntese do Tratado de Methuen assinado entre Portugal e a Inglaterra no dia 27 de dezembro de 1703. Nele se analisa o contexto que o antecedeu, bem como as leituras divergentes que gerou, desde os coevos até aos dias de hoje, sobre os seus impactes no atraso económico português. Visto como uma confirmação da aliança estratégica entre Portugal e a Inglaterra, o Tratado de Methuen é ainda ...
The Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent empire building is often perceived as the first moment in Early Modern globalization. One would intuitively expect Portugal and its empire then to continue at least actively participating in the globalization wave of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, albeit not necessarily at the forefront. When looking at the outreach, outputs and geographical extent of ...
This chapter examines the Methuen Treaty signed between Portugal and England on 27 December, 1703. It analyses the context that preceded the treaty and the negative perceptions it received from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, in terms of its impact on Portugal's economic backwardness. The Methuen Treaty is seen as a confirmation of the strategic alliance between Portugal and England, and is still...
Over the last decades, environmental problems have become a matter of global concern. The fact that we were so careless about ecology led us to the breaking point we are now. From the early sixties with Silent Spring to the early seventies with the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment ,or the magistral report The Limits to Growth. till our contemporaneity the discourse about environmental aspects ...
Historiography pertaining to the study of European colonial empires can generally be defined in two different strands: on the one hand, the nationally geared scholarship that zooms in on the development of specific ‘national’ empires and their relationships to non-European individuals, groups and polities and, on the other hand, narratives that privilege the focus on the colony and the colony’s links to the out...
In this article we take the example of smuggled brazil wood to study the complex relationship between smuggling and the development ofoverseas empires. We trace the legal framework provided by the Portuguese monarchy and the WIC for the exploitation of brazilwood, from the logging in Brazil to the import into the European consumption markets. We also provide a glimpse of the many groups and the different ways i...