Amélia Polónia
Biographic Data
| ID | 180334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amélia Polónia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amélia |
| FAMILY NAME | Polónia |
| SIGNATURE | POLÓNIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7798-6088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The historical uses of the oceans: The Anthropocene in the first global age (1500–1800)
This paper covers three key scientific fields: Maritime Studies, Cultural Studies and Environmental Studies.Taking the 'Anthropocene' as a culturally and ideologically constructed concept, with worldwide political implications, it discusses to what extent an entire generation around the world is still elaborating on a well-known iniquity: Eurocentrism.The paper argues that oceanic connections were the core condition for building a globalized worl…
My Intellectual Debt to Michael Pearson
Practices and representations of gender: Autochthone women in the Portuguese State of India, 1500s–1600s
Interactions between Europeans and the societies and cultures of contact during the early modern process of empire-building depended on the agency of women. This seems particularly apparent in the Portuguese case. Even if many of these interactions were imposed, women were crucial elements in the dynamics and outcomes of European colonization. This affected Portuguese and autochthone women alike, even if on different scales and levels. This artic…
Women and Children on board—The Case of the Carreira Da India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion
Historical interpretation of Portuguese Overseas Expansion has changed considerably from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ideological appropriations of historical events are commonplace. The propaganda of the regime of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar extensively used the topic of Portuguese Overseas Expansion as a founding myth for justifying its own colonialism, even in times when decolonization processes were the comm…
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology by Phillip Reid
Reviewed by: The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology by Phillip Reid Amélia Polónia (bio) The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology By Phillip Reid. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv + 308. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology By Phillip Reid. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv +…
Preservar patrimónios e partilhar memórias em cidades-porto latino-americanas: Um projeto em ação: CoopMar – Cooperação Transoceânica, Políticas Públicas e Comunidade Sociocultural Ibero-Americana
Os portos marítimos foram, durante séculos, a mais contínua plataforma de interface e de intercâmbio entre a Europa, a África e a América. As cidades portuárias emergem como estruturas e construções sociais com características próprias. O seu estudo permite conhecer e debater questões relacionadas com a complexidade urbana e social, pois reúnem, por norma, marcas de diversidade, humana e cultural, e por isso apresentam-se como locais privilegiado…
Mobilities: The Role of the Social Sciences and Humanities under the United Nations Sustainable Goals for 2020–2030
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2020–2030 include areas such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice. The topic of migrations comprises broad concepts of socio-cultural, religious, political, economic, environmental and technological movement and change. The consensus seems to be that the future lies in cooperation across disciplines. The question of this paper is: how fa…
Inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinarity in maritime history: Potentialities and limits
Following an ongoing debate, this paper argues that the future of the encompassing field of maritime history might proceed in three main directions: (1) convergence with the debates and the societal challenges for 2020–2030 and beyond, as defined by the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals; (2) merger with a broad field of maritime studies, multidisciplinary by nature; and (3) dialogue with different disciplines to develop transdisciplinary method…
Shipping and empire building: Crown versus individuals in Portuguese overseas expansion, c.1500-1700. A mixed model of seaport development
Crown policies and private enterprise combined to increase efficiency levels in Portuguese overseas expansion. Within this framework, this paper will emphasize three themes. Firstly, the dependence of the Portuguese empire on shipping efficiency; while the debate largely focuses on shipbuilding and seafarers, we show how crown policies and individual enterprises adapted to the evolving requirements of an empire based on sea power. Secondly, we de…
Shipbuilding in Portuguese overseas settlements, 1500–1700
Shipbuilding was an essential element in the creation of overseas empires during the early modern period. It generated demand for raw materials, technology and manpower, and in many cases received direct support from the state. The Portuguese shipbuilding industry enjoyed various incentives from the Crown, but was always a mix between state and private enterprise. With Portugal expanding overseas, building and repairing ships in the various Portu…
Cross-cultural Exchange and the Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age
EN] Europe’s 16th century geographical expansion was not limited to territorial borders. The emergence of the New World brought to the forefront a myriad of natural novelties that contributed to the development of several areas of knowledge. Practices including collecting, correspondence, and the study of materials produced and put into circulation new products, knowledge, and uses of American natural species. The dense network of scientific comm…
Maritime History as Global History
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600
Interactions Between the Local and the Global: Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese State of India (1500 - 1700)
It is commonplace to locate the First Global Age in the period between 1500 and 1800 and present the European Overseas Expansion as one of the main levers of this process. However, interactions occurred locally and many localities were involved in the process. Recent and not so-recent historiography has stressed how cross-cultural and cross-imperial relations as well as cooperation and self-organization mechanisms have to be taken into considerat…
Connected oceans: New pathways in maritime history
The Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea are no longer studied as distinct oceanic regions but interrogated as variegated worlds, interconnected in multiple ways. This Forum explores the various ways in which maritime history has been dealing with this trend. It shows how the notion of oceans as interactive spaces requires maritime historians to look beyond the shoreline by placing the interconnectedness of sea and land …
Index
Epilogue
Preliminary Material
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation be…
Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building
During the sixteenth century, Portugal — a small kingdom with a relatively small population and few urban centres apart from Lisbon1 — was the first European power to promote regular maritime routes which allowed global exchanges. The idea that this was a process driven by the state is still commonplace, yet the Portuguese crown lacked the financial sustainability and the institutional, bureaucratic and administrative apparatus to effectively con…
Think Globally, Act Locally Environmental History as Global History in the First Global Age
The paper is oriented towards a reflection on the epistemological extension of world history. This discipline is currently opening up for new subjects and new foci of interest, with environmental history being one of them. The paper debates the interaction between the global and the local as one of the main issues of world history. It analyses the impacts of the interconnectivity of diverse regions as well as different geographical and cultural c…
Chapter Fifteen. Seaports As Centres Of Economic Growth: The Portuguese Case, 1500–1800
Although the general outlines of trade were important in European expansion, the political patterns have thus to be stressed to fully understand the impact of overseas traffic on the redefinition of the ports' ranking. This thesis, an hypothesis that was never really proven, has conditioned explanations of Portuguese overseas expansion over the long-term and emphasized psychological approaches to the dynamics of Portuguese history, insisting on t…
Maritime History as Global History
This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter…
Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c.1500–1900
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation be…
Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c.1500–1900
Think Globally, Act Locally Environmental History as Global History in the First Global Age
The paper is oriented towards a reflection on the epistemological extension of world history. This discipline is currently opening up for new subjects and new foci of interest, with environmental history being one of them. The paper debates the interaction between the global and the local as one of the main issues of world history. It analyses the impacts of the interconnectivity of diverse regions as well as different geographical and cultural c…
Shipping and empire building: Crown versus individuals in Portuguese overseas expansion, c.1500-1700. A mixed model of seaport development
Crown policies and private enterprise combined to increase efficiency levels in Portuguese overseas expansion. Within this framework, this paper will emphasize three themes. Firstly, the dependence of the Portuguese empire on shipping efficiency; while the debate largely focuses on shipbuilding and seafarers, we show how crown policies and individual enterprises adapted to the evolving requirements of an empire based on sea power. Secondly, we de…
Cross-cultural Exchange and the Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age
EN] Europe’s 16th century geographical expansion was not limited to territorial borders. The emergence of the New World brought to the forefront a myriad of natural novelties that contributed to the development of several areas of knowledge. Practices including collecting, correspondence, and the study of materials produced and put into circulation new products, knowledge, and uses of American natural species. The dense network of scientific comm…
Interactions Between the Local and the Global: Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese State of India (1500 - 1700)
It is commonplace to locate the First Global Age in the period between 1500 and 1800 and present the European Overseas Expansion as one of the main levers of this process. However, interactions occurred locally and many localities were involved in the process. Recent and not so-recent historiography has stressed how cross-cultural and cross-imperial relations as well as cooperation and self-organization mechanisms have to be taken into considerat…
Connected oceans: New pathways in maritime history
The Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea are no longer studied as distinct oceanic regions but interrogated as variegated worlds, interconnected in multiple ways. This Forum explores the various ways in which maritime history has been dealing with this trend. It shows how the notion of oceans as interactive spaces requires maritime historians to look beyond the shoreline by placing the interconnectedness of sea and land …
The Sea and its Impact on a Maritime Community: Vila do Conde, Portugal, 1500–1640
Maritime History as Global History
This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter…
Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c.1500–1900
Chapter Fifteen. Seaports As Centres Of Economic Growth: The Portuguese Case, 1500–1800
Although the general outlines of trade were important in European expansion, the political patterns have thus to be stressed to fully understand the impact of overseas traffic on the redefinition of the ports' ranking. This thesis, an hypothesis that was never really proven, has conditioned explanations of Portuguese overseas expansion over the long-term and emphasized psychological approaches to the dynamics of Portuguese history, insisting on t…
Portuguese Seafarers: Informal Agents of Empire-Building
During the sixteenth century, Portugal — a small kingdom with a relatively small population and few urban centres apart from Lisbon1 — was the first European power to promote regular maritime routes which allowed global exchanges. The idea that this was a process driven by the state is still commonplace, yet the Portuguese crown lacked the financial sustainability and the institutional, bureaucratic and administrative apparatus to effectively con…
Think Globally, Act Locally Environmental History as Global History in the First Global Age
The paper is oriented towards a reflection on the epistemological extension of world history. This discipline is currently opening up for new subjects and new foci of interest, with environmental history being one of them. The paper debates the interaction between the global and the local as one of the main issues of world history. It analyses the impacts of the interconnectivity of diverse regions as well as different geographical and cultural c…
Index
Epilogue
Preliminary Material
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation be…
Maritime History as Global History
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600
Interactions Between the Local and the Global: Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese State of India (1500 - 1700)
It is commonplace to locate the First Global Age in the period between 1500 and 1800 and present the European Overseas Expansion as one of the main levers of this process. However, interactions occurred locally and many localities were involved in the process. Recent and not so-recent historiography has stressed how cross-cultural and cross-imperial relations as well as cooperation and self-organization mechanisms have to be taken into considerat…
Connected oceans: New pathways in maritime history
The Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea are no longer studied as distinct oceanic regions but interrogated as variegated worlds, interconnected in multiple ways. This Forum explores the various ways in which maritime history has been dealing with this trend. It shows how the notion of oceans as interactive spaces requires maritime historians to look beyond the shoreline by placing the interconnectedness of sea and land …
Cross-cultural Exchange and the Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age
EN] Europe’s 16th century geographical expansion was not limited to territorial borders. The emergence of the New World brought to the forefront a myriad of natural novelties that contributed to the development of several areas of knowledge. Practices including collecting, correspondence, and the study of materials produced and put into circulation new products, knowledge, and uses of American natural species. The dense network of scientific comm…
Shipbuilding in Portuguese overseas settlements, 1500–1700
Shipbuilding was an essential element in the creation of overseas empires during the early modern period. It generated demand for raw materials, technology and manpower, and in many cases received direct support from the state. The Portuguese shipbuilding industry enjoyed various incentives from the Crown, but was always a mix between state and private enterprise. With Portugal expanding overseas, building and repairing ships in the various Portu…
Preservar patrimónios e partilhar memórias em cidades-porto latino-americanas: Um projeto em ação: CoopMar – Cooperação Transoceânica, Políticas Públicas e Comunidade Sociocultural Ibero-Americana
Os portos marítimos foram, durante séculos, a mais contínua plataforma de interface e de intercâmbio entre a Europa, a África e a América. As cidades portuárias emergem como estruturas e construções sociais com características próprias. O seu estudo permite conhecer e debater questões relacionadas com a complexidade urbana e social, pois reúnem, por norma, marcas de diversidade, humana e cultural, e por isso apresentam-se como locais privilegiado…
Mobilities: The Role of the Social Sciences and Humanities under the United Nations Sustainable Goals for 2020–2030
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2020–2030 include areas such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice. The topic of migrations comprises broad concepts of socio-cultural, religious, political, economic, environmental and technological movement and change. The consensus seems to be that the future lies in cooperation across disciplines. The question of this paper is: how fa…
Inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinarity in maritime history: Potentialities and limits
Following an ongoing debate, this paper argues that the future of the encompassing field of maritime history might proceed in three main directions: (1) convergence with the debates and the societal challenges for 2020–2030 and beyond, as defined by the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals; (2) merger with a broad field of maritime studies, multidisciplinary by nature; and (3) dialogue with different disciplines to develop transdisciplinary method…
Shipping and empire building: Crown versus individuals in Portuguese overseas expansion, c.1500-1700. A mixed model of seaport development
Crown policies and private enterprise combined to increase efficiency levels in Portuguese overseas expansion. Within this framework, this paper will emphasize three themes. Firstly, the dependence of the Portuguese empire on shipping efficiency; while the debate largely focuses on shipbuilding and seafarers, we show how crown policies and individual enterprises adapted to the evolving requirements of an empire based on sea power. Secondly, we de…
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology by Phillip Reid
Reviewed by: The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology by Phillip Reid Amélia Polónia (bio) The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology By Phillip Reid. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv + 308. The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology By Phillip Reid. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv +…
Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion
Historical interpretation of Portuguese Overseas Expansion has changed considerably from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ideological appropriations of historical events are commonplace. The propaganda of the regime of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar extensively used the topic of Portuguese Overseas Expansion as a founding myth for justifying its own colonialism, even in times when decolonization processes were the comm…
Women and Children on board—The Case of the Carreira Da India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
My Intellectual Debt to Michael Pearson
Practices and representations of gender: Autochthone women in the Portuguese State of India, 1500s–1600s
Interactions between Europeans and the societies and cultures of contact during the early modern process of empire-building depended on the agency of women. This seems particularly apparent in the Portuguese case. Even if many of these interactions were imposed, women were crucial elements in the dynamics and outcomes of European colonization. This affected Portuguese and autochthone women alike, even if on different scales and levels. This artic…
Political science (15 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · History (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works)