MACAU E A VISÃO DO COLONIALISMO PORTUGUÊS DE CHARLES RALPH BOXER澳門‧與查爾斯‧博克塞對葡國殖民主義的看法
The essay analyzes the controversy generated by the 1963 publication of Charles Ralph Boxer's book *Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825*, in a context in which the Portuguese colonial empire was beginning an irreversible collapse. The author argues that the reception of Boxer...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40047/2364 |
| Summary: | The essay analyzes the controversy generated by the 1963 publication of Charles Ralph Boxer's book *Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825*, in a context in which the Portuguese colonial empire was beginning an irreversible collapse. The author argues that the reception of Boxer's work becomes particularly illuminating when discussing not only his critique of the Estado Novo's assimilationist discourse, but also a specific omission: the absence of Macau in the British historian's approach to Portuguese colonialism. Methodologically, the article reconstructs the historiographical debate by mobilizing Boxer's polemic with the Swede Magnus Mörner and the ideological framework of Luso-tropicalism, relating Boxer's theses to the mechanisms of cultural and racial legitimation that sustained Salazarist propaganda. It then contextualizes the instrumentalization of the empire in the 1960s, when the "overseas province" was presented as a coherent extension of European space. The conclusions indicate that the exclusion of Macau cannot be read merely as a descriptive gap, but as evidence of limits in the analytical grid and in the sources privileged by Boxer, revealing tensions between Anglo-Saxon historical writing on empires and the centrality of the colonial specificities of Portuguese Asia. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |