This dissertation concerns human-environment interactions in southeastern Portugal during the centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. In contrast to the feudal systems that developed across Western Europe outside Iberia, the Islamic polities that control…
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The hydroclimate of the Iberian Peninsula has been suggested to be persistently dry during Medieval times due to a persistently positive North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) mode (Trouet et al., 2009). However, modeling results and proxy records from the region indicate that substan…
The Atlantic slave trade from West Africa dominates African historiography; however, there are lacunas in the scholarship concerning the earliest African slave trade to Europe and its colonies. This study reconstructs the maritime trade in slaves and merchandise from West Africa…
For the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, the rapid territorial expansion which took place between the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 and the fall of Seville in 1248 created a broad frontier with Muslim al-Andalus which would stand for two and a half centuries.…
The aim of this research is to present empirical evidence on the effects of framing the business commitment to work-family life issues as a corporate social responsibility. Some authors (Pitt-Catsouphes and Googins, 2004, Goodstein, 1994b) have already claimed the need for recas…
Music journalism has been acknowledged as an important space of mediation between artists and consumers. Journalists and critics have played an historical role in the creation of discourse on popular music and are acknowledged by the music industry as an important referent in pr…
This dissertation discusses African immigration to Portugal and Spain, particularly as it is reflected and reproduced in creative work. Before addressing the creative work, however, I examine in Chapter I some of the broader political, sociological and historical similarities an…
This dissertation examines the novel Consolaçam às Tribulaçõens de Israel, written by Samuel Usque and published in Ferrara, Italy in 1553. The book---simultaneously written as a historical account, a rabbinical response and a pastoral novel---emerges from the context of the exp…
The starting point of the present dissertation is the study of the historical formation of Southern Africa as an integrated region of the modern world-economy. This is considered through the analysis of the main forms of successive, unequal relationship between the core and the …
The thesis compares the period of transition to democracy in Portugal and Iran after the collapse of the authoritarian regimes through revolutions in 1974 in Portugal and 1979 in Iran. Despite the similarities the cases share, the outcome of the transition in Portugal was a poli…
In this dissertation, I develop the notion of the presence and influence of an Iberian Sufi mystical process in the poetry of Clara Janés and Joaquim Pessoa. I also further define these poets' role in the development of postmodernism in the Iberian Peninsula. In Chapter I, I giv…
Blindness in the Literature of Orhan Pamuk, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago examines three important texts by three well-known contemporary authors: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk; the chapter « Report on the Blind » from the novel On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato; and Blindne…
In 1618, during the Iberian Union, João Baptista Lavanha was appointed by Phillip II of Portugal as Royal Chronicler for that kingdom. Along with this prestigious position came the rather uncomfortable task of writing the first official chronicle of King Sebastian, the young mon…
This dissertation examines the early interactions between the Portuguese and the Chinese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with special emphasis on the central roles respective ideas of time and space played in the creation and development of the perception of the othe…
This web exhibit ( https://kathrynbryles.omeka.net/ ) will examine the material remains, mostly ceramics, recovered from the Castelo Archaeological Research Project. The artifacts recovered in Castelo’s two seasons range from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron age, dated thro…
Like some other European nations in the twentieth century, Portugal was a dictatorship without a significant social welfare support system. Many Azoreans grew up barely growing enough food to eat each day. This did not improve when the Portuguese dictatorship fell in 1974. Howev…
Background Cape Verde has produced migrants over the centuries. Its history and geography have compelled males and females to leave their homeland in search of resources to invest in their family s survival and development. Literature on parental investment has evidenced the ass…
The 711 Muslim invasion of Visigothic Iberia was spearheaded by an asymmetric martial paradigm known as al-ghazu , which originated in pre-Islamic Arabia. The assimilation of the ghazu and its subsequent dominance of the Iberian military culture shaped the martial ecumene of gen…