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Recovering Plant Data for Guinea-Bissau: Implications for Biodiversity Knowledge of West Africa

The rich plant diversity that characterizes the West African Region and the inherent knowledge of their flora and vegetation has been the backbone of scientific explorations during the past centuries. The evolution of botanical knowledge on Guinea-Bissau, throughout the 16th and 20th centuries is reviewed. We present and discuss floristic data collected by scientific expeditions […]
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Administration, economy, and society in the Portuguese African empire (1900-1975)

Focusing on the period from the early 1900s to 1975, this chapter provides a comparative overview of the Third Portuguese empire, and the economic, political, social, and cultural ramifications and impact of Portuguese administration upon African societies. It constituted a fragmented empire including continental colonies such as Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique, and insular possessions such […]
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The IHMT in historical perspective: institutional trajectories since 1950

The present article focuses on the institutional aspects of the recent history of the IHMT, from the mid twentieth century to the present. In order to do so, it analyses its internal organization, research, training and intervention, as well as national and international relations during the colonial and the post-colonial periods. By associating internal and […]
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Taxing the Natives’: fiscal administration, labour and crop cultivation in Portuguese Guinea (1900-1945)

The present chapter focuses on the question of direct ‘native’ taxation in former Portuguese Guinea – current Guinea Bissau – from its introduction in the early 1900s to the end of WWII. It deals with different political contexts, starting with the military campaigns waged by the Portuguese with increasing intensity from the 1890s, and ending […]
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Introdution

This book addresses a notable gap in the knowledge of Portuguese colonial administration and the policies implemented in the main territories of its “third” African empire: Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. In recent years, the question of colonial taxation has become a topic in the academic debate on colonial empires and has led to a comparative, […]
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