Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a site that captures the attention it deserves.The Global South Atlantic traces literary...

Organized around eight fundamental ideas, Key concepts in energy history explores the discoveries, technologies and new paradigms in the field of energy, and how they have changed the course of history. Complex technical concepts such as the “rebound effect”, “technological hybridization”, “marginal cost pricing” are explained in clear terms and a balanced and concise account of t energy sources in the XIX and XX century such as wood, coal, oil, hydroelectricity and nuclear energy is provi...

Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Yet, despite this high profile there are very few full-length critical studiesin English about his writing....

Nossa República pela ótica dos principais economistas, cientistas sociais e advogados do BrasilNo dia 15 de novembro de 1889, no Campo de Santana, no centro do Rio de Janeiro, o marechal Deodoro proclamava o início da nossa República. Éramos à época um país que havia abolido a escravidão recentemente, com a população de apenas 14 milhões de habitantes, dos quais 82% eram analfabetos e 90% viviam em áreas rurais. Agora, em 2019, com 208 milhões de habitantes, somos ...

Vivemos em uma era de transformação sem precedentes. O avanço exponencial da tecnologia está redefinindo não apenas o mundo dos negócios, mas todas as esferas da sociedade. A inteligência artificial, a automação, a biotecnologia e a interconectividade global estão moldando um futuro em que os limites entre humano e máquina se tornam cada vez mais tênues. Muitos especialistas chamam esse momento de iminência da singularidade, o ponto em que a tecnologia evoluirá além da compreensão humana, ...