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Counting Portuguese colonial populations, 1776–1875: a research note
Título Revista
History of the Family
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2016
Língua
Inglês
País
Reino Unido
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Abstract/Resumo
In 1776 the Portuguese Crown decreed that statistical population tables were to be compiled in all its overseas possessions. Using a defined model, each governor was to send annually a population count for the area under his jurisdiction. In the Arquivo Historico Ultramarino (AHU) in Lisbon there are over a thousand statistical population tables from Brazil to Macau. This documentary corpus opens up important horizons for demographic, social and colonial history, though it has been relatively ignored by historians and demographers. These sources enable us to study the demography and the administrative processes adopted in census-taking during the construction of the Portuguese Empire between 1776 and 1875. The following research note emphasizes the distinctive aspects of the sources, the data and its potential, and the research agenda.
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Palavras-chave
Portuguese Empire,Colonial demography,Census-taking,Slavery
Classificação Fields of Science and Technology
- História e Arqueologia - Humanidades
Registos de financiamentos
Referência de financiamento | Entidade Financiadora |
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PTDC/EPH-HIS/3697/2012 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
139601/2015 | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |