Although some of the studies are more than a decade old, we believe they have not lost their topicality, mainly due to the heuristic basis that sustains them. Readers will be able to confirm, in essence, that a concern with the theoretical framework has always been present and that there is a link between all these studies. Their selection sought to correspond to the pleasure the author had in writing some of them and to their favourable reception by the readers, namely by colleagues who read and made comments on one occasion or another, enabling re-evaluations and opening new paths in the constant learning process of making and remaking history.
The studies included in this book are not arranged according to their original date of publication, but rather to a thematic and chronological sequence. The original editions have been respected, with minor amendments. The first section, ‘On Geography’, compiles texts dealing with issues of location and geographical representations of the islands and their role in the genesis of an early modernity.
The second section, ‘ On society’, contains several writings that reflect what has been the central axis of our research for more than two decades, the groups and social dynamics, with particular focus on the local elites. Lastly, ‘On 18th-century reformism’ consists of two more recent texts in which we address the issue of the reforms carried out in the Azores in the 18th century and of their interpreters, in a critical but sustained perspective of a priori readings that can still be found in the current bibliography.
Out of print.
Histórias Atlânticas. Os Açores na primeira modernidade, Ponta Delgada: CHAM, 2012, 246p., (Colecção Estudos & Documentos, 13).
ISBN
9789898492104
Available at RUN - Repositório da NOVA(Web)
Available at Repositório da Universidade dos Açores(Web)
