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Patrícia Martins Marcos, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race-Making, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)”
Patrícia Martins Marcos, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race-Making, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)”
In 1750, when the Brazilian border expanded by several orders of magnitude, Portuguese Crown officials, administrators, and men of science received the news with hope and apprehension. While the growth of frontiers of Portugal’s possession in the Americas was celebrated, it also presented formidable challenges for settlement. How could a diminutive metropole whose empire stretched […]