Filhos da Terra

António Manuel Hespanha was Professor of Legal History and Theory of Law at the Faculty of Law, Nova University of Lisbon. His major work As Vésperas do Leviathan (1986) was groundbreaking in establishing a new history of the political institutions and of the nature of the State in Portugal in the Early Modern period. A prolific writer, he was guest professor at Yale University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Macau and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He was also the General Commissioner for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries Committee (1995-1998). For all his academic, intellectual, and political contributions, he was awarded the honor of Grand Official of the Military Order of Sant’Iago da Espada (2000) by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio.Cátia Antunes, Ph.D. (2004), Leiden University, is Professor of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires at that university. She has published on the comparative history of empires, merchant culture(s), and entrepreneurship and empire, including Merchant Cultures: A Global Approach to Spaces, Representations and Worlds of Trade, 1500-1800, edited with Francisco Bethencourt (Brill, 2022).Noelle Richardson, Ph.D. (2019), European University Institute, is currently a researcher at Leiden University. Her work focuses on the history of empire and the global economy in Asia through questions of subjecthood and citizenship, issues of race, gender and caste identities, and the social and economic history of the Indian Ocean. Her recent publications include "Managing Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Estado da Índia", e-Journal of Portuguese History 20 (1): 40-66.

• General Series Editor’s PrefaceList of IllustrationsForeword: Filhos da Terra in English – The Raison D’ÊtreThe Legal Dimensions of Empire: Filhos da Terra and the Normative OrderPortuguese Identity, Métissage and LiminalityTranslator’s NoteGlossaryIntroduction1 A ‘Portuguese’ Identity?2 The Analytical Perspective1 Chapter title to be come1 The Portuguese ‘Informal Empire’2 The ‘Shadow Empire’3 Developments in the ‘Historiography of the Atlantic’2 Chapter title to be come1 Methodological Approaches in the Historiography of the ‘Informal Empire’2 Notes of Caution3 Observing Identity: Methodological Questions3 Chapter title to be come1 The ‘Provinces of the Shadow Empire2 Guinea3 The Americas4 Angola5 Mozambique6 The Indian Ocean and South Asia7 Mainland Southeast Asia8 The Far East4 Chapter title to be come1 The ‘Portuguese Tribe’5 Chapter title to be come1 Power and Governance in the ‘Shadow Empire’6 Chapter title to be come1 Questions of Identity: External Differentiation and Internal Homogeneity7 Chapter title to be come1 The Universalism of the PortugueseAfterthoughts: Conversing about Diversity in EmpireBibliographyIndex