Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
He was nicknamed "Hero of Two Continents" for his performance, beginning in 1624, against the Dutch invaders of colonial Brazil (Captaincy of Pernambuco) and for his role, beginning in 1641, as a general in Portugal, fighting for king John IV during the Portuguese Restoration War, where he won the battle of Montijo over the Spaniards in 1644 ...
"Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 75 (2): 322–323. Norris, William P. (1995). "Maxine L. Margolis "Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City" ". Contemporary Sociology. 24 (4): 319–320. doi:10.2307/2077630. JSTOR 2077630.
The Portuguese Heritage Society, also known as Lusitano, is a national not-for-profit organization based in Mineola, New York, founded in 1995. Its members and volunteers support, spread, and enrich Portuguese culture for those living in the United States .
The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação), [7] was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union. The period from 1640 to 1668 was ...
Little Brazil is a small neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City that is centered on the single block of West 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 1960s, the street was home to dozens of Brazilian commercial enterprises and Brazilian restaurants, although only a handful remain in the 2000s. [ 2 ]
Review is on pages 15-16/25 of the PDF documents. Barkan, Elliott Robert (1999). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City". Reviews in American History. 27 (2): 318–319. O'Neal, Colleen G (1999). "Review: Possibilities for Migration Anthropology (An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City)". American Ethnologist. 26 (1 ...
In the early stages of the Restoration War, Portugal had licensed English and Dutch privateers to operate against Spanish merchant shipping. The Dutch used the opportunity to attack Portuguese colonies. Under the 1661 Treaty of The Hague, Portugal gave up most of its territories in Asia but retained those in Brazil and Africa. Castelo Melhor ...
Portuguese sculptures can be best analysed by studying the many tombs of the 12th and 14th centuries that are found throughout Portugal. In the late 1700s, the colony of Brazil was the main influence in Portuguese sculpture. This can be seen by the increase in Baroque wooden sculpture during this time.