Media and the Portuguese Empire

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Portuguese Empire: An Introduction

   • José Luís Garcia, Chandrika Kaul, Filipa Subtil, Alexandra Santos

   Pages 1-27

3. Media and the Portuguese and British Empires: Themes in Comparative Perspective

   • Chandrika Kaul

   Pages 29-53

4. An Overview of the Colonial Media in the Context of the Portuguese Empire

   • Antonio Hohlfeldt

   Pages 55-68

5. The Languages of the Goan Periodical Press, 1820–1933

   • Sandra Ataíde Lobo

   Pages 69-86

6. The Press and Portuguese-British Relations at the Time of the British ‘Ultimatum’

   • Paulo Jorge Fernandes

   Pages 87-105

7. Republicanism and Nationalism in Angola in the Late Nineteenth Century

   • Maria Cristina Portella Ribeiro

   Pages 107-123

8. The First Stirrings of Anti-Colonial Discourse in the Portuguese Press

   • José Luís Garcia

   Pages 125-143

9. The Press and Empire in Portuguese Africa, 1842–1926

   • Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca

   Pages 145-159

10. Imperial Taboos: Salazarist Censorship in the Portuguese Colonies

    • Daniel Melo

    Pages 161-178

11. Colonisation Through Broadcasting: Rádio Clube de Moçambique and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonial Policy, 1932–1964

    • Nelson Ribeiro

    Pages 179-195

12. The Mise-en-scène of the Empire: The 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition

    • Joana Ramalho

    Pages 197-216

13. The Luso-Tropicalist Message of the Late Portuguese Empire

    • Cláudia Castelo

    Pages 217-234

14. Reporting 4 February 1961 in Angola: The Beginning of the End of the Portuguese Empire

    • Tânia Alves

    Pages 235-251

15. Photography and Propaganda in the Fall of the Portuguese Empire: Volkmar Wentzel’s Assignments for National Geographic Magazine

    • Afonso Ramos

    Pages 253-274

16. Rising Symbol for a Falling Empire: The African Footballer Eusébio

    • José Ricardo Carvalheiro

    Pages 275-290

17. Amílcar Cabral, the PAIGC and the Media: The Struggle in Words, Sounds and Images

    • Teresa Duarte Martinho

    Pages 291-307

18. Literature Against the Empire: Narratives of the Nation in the Textbook História de Angola and in the Novel Yaka

    • Alexandra Santos, Filipa Subtil

    Pages 309-326

19. East Timor and Portugal: The Ending of Empire in the Media

    • Rita Ribeiro, Joaquim Costa

    Pages 327-344

20. Back Matter

    Pages 345-355

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This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor.

• printing press
• newspapers
• communication
• colonialism
• nationalism
• nineteenth century
• twentieth century

• Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

  José Luís Garcia

• University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

  Chandrika Kaul

• Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

  Filipa Subtil

• Universidade Europeia, IADE, Lisbon, Portugal

  Alexandra Santos

José Luís Garcia is Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He recently edited Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet (2016).



Chandrika Kaul is Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews, UK. Her most recent publication is titled Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience: Britain and India in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2014).



Filipa Subtil is Assistant Professor at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal.


Alexandra Dias Santos is Assistant Professor at IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal.

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