HISTORY 348F: Biblography


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University of Toronto: Department of History
What follows is a select bibliography, arranged in fairly logical groupings, which might prove the point of departure for an essay.

The Atlantic Islands: what are the main socio-political problems in the twentieth century? (or an earlier century)
R. Brans, The Azores, (1963)
Heinzelmann, W., Madeira, Portugal, (1971)
Duncan, Bentley, Atlantic Islands, Madeira, the Azores and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation (Chicago, 1972)
F. Rogers, Atlantic Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras (1979) DP702/A86/R63

Portuguese Perception of the Nation
D. Stanislawski, The Individuality of Portugal (1959)
Gallop, R., Portugal, a Book of Folkways (1936) AnFG1735p
Jose Augusto França, A arte en Portugal no século XIX (1967)
Coutinho, Joaquim de Sequeira, An Outline of the History of Portuguese Culture (1964) DP532/C68
Siegel, Bernard J:, "Conflict, Parochialism and Social Differentiation in Portuguese Society," Journal of Conflict Resolution 5, 35-42
Wheeler, D., Republican Portugal, A Political History 1910-1926

The Foreigners' View of Portugal
Anderson, Hans Christian, A Visit to Portugal, 1866 (1972) DP525/A5713
Crawford, Oswald John Frederick, Travels in Portugal (1875)
Kinsey, W.M., Portugal Illustrated in a Series of Letters (1829) DP525/K56/1829
Macaulay, Rose, They Went to Portugal (1946)
Shore, Henry N., Three Pleasant Springs in Portugal (1899)
Southey, Robt., Journals of a Residence in Portugal, 1800-1801. (1960)

Portuguese in the Tropics to 1820
George D. Winius, The Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon (1971)
Anthony R. Disney, Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century (1978)
A.J.R. Russell-Wood, Fidalgos and Philanthropists: the Santa Casa da Misericordia of Bahia, 1550-1755 (1968)
C.R. Boxer, Portuguese Society in the Tropics (1965)
Tikiri Abeyasinghe, Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594-1612 (1966)
Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations...Bahia, 1550-1835 (1985)
K. Maxwell, Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808 (1973)
Rego, A. da Silva, O ultramar português no século XVIII (2nd ed) 1970
Anita Novinsky, Inquisição: inventários de bens confiscados a cristãos novos, Fontes para a história de Portugal e do Brasil, 1977, BX1730/N68
C.R. Boxer, Francisco Vieira de Figueiredo, a Portuguese Merchant Adventurer in South-East Asia, 1624-1667 (1967)

A Portuguese Biography
Write a biography dealing with (1) the family background and upbringing (2) the social or political setting of the career (3) the significance to Portugal of one of the following: Pedro II, Pombal, Maria I, Herculano, Saldanha, Franco, Sidonio Pais, Salazar, Amália Rodrigues. Some of these figures have more written about them in English than others, viz: M. Cheke and K. Maxwell on Pombal.

The Portuguese Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Boxer, C.R., The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825 (1969)
Carl A. Hanson, Economy and Society in Baroque Portugal, 1668-1703 (1981)
A.D. Francis, The Methuens and Portugal, 1691-1708 (1966)
___________, The Wine Trade, London (1972)
H.E.S. Fisher, The Portugal Trade: a Study of Anglo-Portuguese Commerce 1700-1770, (1971), HFF3508/P8 F58
F. Mauro and G. Parker, "Portugal" in An Introduction to the Sources of European Economic History 1500-1800, C. Wilson, G. Parker (eds) London, 1977
Borges de Macedo, J., Problemas de história da indústria portuguesa no século XVIIII (1963)
L.M.E. Shaw, Trade, Inquisition and the English Nation in Portugal 1650-1690, Manchester, 1989

The Portuguese in Canada and America: a Comparison
Taft, Donald R., Two Portuguese Communities in New England (1932) FI5/P8T4
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Anderson, Grace M. and David Higgs, A Future to Inherit: Portuguese Communities in Canada (1976) pp. 208
David Higgs, "Some review notes on a decade of Portuguese - Canadian Studies" Canadian Ethnic Studies, XIII, No. 2, 1981, 124-129
Domingos Marques & João Medeiros, Portuguese Immigrants: 25 Years in Canada (1980)
J-A Alpalhão & V.O. da Rosa, A minority in a changing society: the Portuguese Communities of Quebec (1980)
Sandra Wolforth, The Portuguese in America (1978)

The Rural Background
J. Cutileiro, A Portuguese Rural Society (1972)
Callier-Boisvert, Colette, "La vie rurale au Portugual", Etudes rurales, 1967, pp. 95-134 HT401/E8
"Families in Portugal: recent historical research" guest editor Ana Nunes de Almeida, Journal of Family History, vol. 19 No. 3, (1994).
O'Neill, Brian Juan, Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet: Land, Late Marriage, and Bastardy 1870-1978 (1987)
Riegelhaupt, Joyce F., "Saloio women: an analysis of the informal and formal political and economic roles of Portuguese peasant women," Anthropological Quarterly, (1967) 109-126 GN1/A59
Stanislawski, Dan, Landscapes of Bacchus, Austen, 1970
Silbert, A., Le Portugal méditérranéen à la fin de l'ancien regime...contribution à l'histoire agraire comparée, Paris, 1966, 2 vols.
Caroline Brettell, Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait; Population and History in a Portuguese Parish (1986)


Urban Development of Portugal (or of a particular town for a hundred year period: Porto, Funchal, Coimbra, Ponta Delgada, etc.)
E.A. Gutkind, Urban development in Southern Europe: Spain and Portugal (International history of city development, vol. 3), 1967
Jose-Augusto França, Une ville des lumières: la Lisbonne de Pombal, Paris, 1965
Stanislawski, Dan, Portugal's Other Kingdom: the Algarve (1963)
Azevedo, João Antonio Monteiro, Descripção topographica de Villa Nova de Gaya (1808) DP802/V7A94
Manuel Carlos de Brito, Opera in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century (1989)

See in Robarts the books by name of town at end of DP classification.

Church in Society in Portugal
António Baião, Episódios dramáticos da Inquisição Portuguesa, 3rd ed., Lisbon, 1973, 3 vols. many long quotations from documents of 17th and 18th centuries, BXl730/B3/1973/I-3
William Beckford, Journal of William Beckford, 1787-1788 (1954) LE/B3965 jon.
C.R. Boxer, "An enlightened Portuguese: Antonio Ribeiro Sanches", History Today, April, 1970
Salomon, H.P., "The Portuguese Inquisition and Its Victims in the Light of Recent Polemics," Journal of the American-Portuguese Cultural Society (1971), pp. 19-28
Dicionário de História da Igreja em Portugal, BXl555/D5
Fortunato de Almeida, História da Igreja em Portugal
S.J. Miller, Portugal and Rome c. 1748-1830: An Aspect of the Catholic Enlighten-ment, Rome, 1978

The First Republic
E.J. Dillon, "Republic Portugal" in Contemporary Review
D.L. Wheeler, Republican Portugal

The Estado Novo
Hugh Kay, Salazar and Modern Portugal
Anais da revolução nacional 5 vols. (Laudatory of Estado Novo), DP680 A48
T. Gallagher, "Controlled Repression in Salazar's Portugal" Jnl. Contemporary History, vol. 14, 3
A. de Figueiredo, Portugal, Fifty Years of Dictatorship (Highly Critical of Estado Novo)
H. Wiarda, Corporatism in Portugal (1977)
M. Soares, Portugal's Struggle for Liberty (1975)
R. Robinson, Contemporary Portugal, London, 1979

Fall of the 1933 Regime (25 April 1974)
D.L. Raby, Fascism and Resistance in Portugal: Communists, Liberals and Military Dissidents (1988)
P.M. Mailer, Portugal, the Impossible Revolution? London, 1977
L.S. Graham (et al), Contemporary Portugal: the Revolution (i.e.1974) and its Antecedents (1979)
Insight in Portugal: the Year of the Captains (1974) DP680/154
D. Porch, The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution (1977)
Walter C. Opello, Jr., "The Transition to Democracy and the Constitutional Settlement as Causes of Political Instabiliy in Post-Authoritarian Portugal," Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 27, no. 2, Winter 1990, 77-94.
H.G. Ferreira, Portugal's Revolution: Ten Years On (1987)
Richard Herr, New Portugal
Kenneth Maxwell, The Making of Portuguese Democracy (1995)

General
Joel Serrao, Dicionário de história de Portugal, 1961-9, DP535/H56 (Reference Room, Robarts)
Bruce Aldrich, "Kinship and Obligation -- the Socio-Economic and Communal Sources of Familialism in Portugal," International Journal of Sociology of the Family (Sept. 1973)
W.W. McVittie, Portugal, Economic and Commercial Conditions(London, Board of Trade Commercial Relations, 1955)

Other Topics Suggested
The development of the Portuguese wine industry in the nineteenth/or twentieth century.
Who supported the Right or Who supported the Left during the First Republic (1910-1926)?


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