Magistrates’ Travelling Libraries: The Circulation of Normative Knowledge in the Portuguese Empire of the Late 18th Century by Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr.

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« Indiens ou Noirs, libres ou esclaves » : travail et métissage en Amazonie portugaise (xviie et xviiie siècles) by Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz

“…Scholars argued that African slavery was economically just not possible, due to the settlers’ poverty, and especially the region’s geographical isolation, which hindered the connection of this province with the main trade circuits of the Portuguese empire. However, besides the many references to Indians in the registers, colonial documentation frequently mentions Africans and Mestizos. …”
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Transimperial Sociology: A Peripheral Dictatorship at the Centre of Late Colonial Social-Scientific Cooperation Between Empires by Ágoas Frederico

“…This approach holds intrinsic value as it contributes to the history of the Portuguese empire and to the study of late colonialism, underscoring the central role of the social sciences in renewing and legitimizing imperial governance. …”
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