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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Edgar Francisco Cravo Bertrand Pereira

Citation names

  • Pereira, Edgar

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A313-089D-95DB
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8547-6777

Email addresses

  • epereira@fl.uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Beginner (A1) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/12/01 - 2020/05/28
Concluded
 Economic and Social History (Doctor)
Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
"A Contractor Empire. Public-Private Partnerships and Overseas Expansion in Habsburg Portugal (1580-1640)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/11/15
Concluded
 História (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: História Moderna e dos Descobrimentos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Pombalismo, jesuítas e a terra nas Velhas Conquistas: confisco e redistribuição de propriedade fundiária na Goa Setecentista" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/06/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, Portugal
2020/09/04 - 2020/11/04 Postdoc (Research) Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma, Italy
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
2013/12/01 - 2017/11/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
2012/03/01 - 2013/02/28 Research Trainee (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/03 - 2013/03 Lands Over Seas: Property Rights in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire
IC&DT(PTDC/HISHIS/113654/2009
Scientific Initiation Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pereira, Edgar. "Doing Business with One’s Sovereign: Merchant-Banking and Portfolio Management in Habsburg Portugal and the Empire (1580–1640)". In Merchant Cultures. A Global Approach to Spaces, Representations and Worlds of Trade, 1500–1800, 271-300. BRILL, 2022.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004506572_014
  2. Pereira, Edgar. "1498–1500. Calicut and Porto Seguro: The Birth of Pluricontinentalism". In The Global History of Portugal, 184-188. Brighton, United Kingdom: Sussex Academic Press, 2022.
    10.2307/jj.3485516.54
  3. Pereira, Edgar; Wirta, Kaarle. "Global Ambitions, Regional Realities: Interactions and Networks in the neglected emporium of Glückstadt (1617-1700)". In Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth century, edited by Weiss, Holger, 17-40. Berlim, Germany: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020.
    Published • 10.1515/9783110670714-002
  4. Pereira, Edgar. "1498/1500: Calecute e Brasil: A Génesis da Pluricontinentalidade". In História Global de Portugal, edited by Fiolhais, Carlos; Franco, José Eduardo; Paiva, José Pedro, 329-334. Lisboa, Portugal: Círculo de Leitores, 2020.
  5. Pereira, Edgar. "Iberia". In The corporation as a protagonist in global history, c. 1550-1750, edited by Pettigrew, William A.; Veevers, David, 301-316. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2019.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004387850_015
Dictionary entry
  1. Pereira, Edgar. "Administração do Confisco". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by Prof. Dr. José Vicente Serrão; Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2013/12/31/administracao-do-confisco/.
    Published
  2. Pereira, Edgar. "Ega, Conde da". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by José Vicente Serrão; Prof. Dr. Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2013/12/31/ega-conde-da/.
    Published
  3. Pereira, Edgar. "Iqta". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by José Vicente Serrão; Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2014/01/07/iqta/.
    Published
  4. Pereira, Edgar. "Iqtadar". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by José Vicente Serrão; Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2013/12/31/iqtadar/.
    Published
  5. Pereira, Edgar. "Jesuítas (Índico)". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by José Vicente Serrão; Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2013/12/31/jesuitas-indico/.
    Published
  6. Pereira, Edgar. "Mão-Morta, bens". In e-Dicionário da Terra e do Território no Império Português (e-DITTIP), edited by José Vicente Serrão; Márcia Motta; Susana Münch Miranda, 2013. https://edittip.net/2013/12/31/mao-morta-bens-de/.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Pereira, Edgar. "Towards a Global and Long-Term Sociology of Empire. An Interview with Peter Fibiger Bang". Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura 24 2 (2024): 263-285.
    In press
  2. Pereira, Edgar. "An Instrumental Connection. Economic Diplomacy, International Arms Trade and Overseas Aspirations between Portugal and Sweden, 1640–80". Legatio: The Journal for Renaissance and Early Modern Diplomatic Studies 5 (2022): 105-132. https://apcz.umk.pl/Legatio/article/view/36835.
    10.12775/legatio.2021.05
  3. Pereira, Edgar. "An Instrumental Connection. Economic Diplomacy, International Arms Trade and Overseas Aspirations between Portugal and Sweden, 1640–80". Legatio: The Journal for Renaissance and Early Modern Diplomatic Studies 5 (2022): 105-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/legatio.2021.05.
    10.12775/legatio.2021.05
  4. Pereira, Edgar. "Reappraising Informal Imperialism in the Early Modern Portuguese Expansion: A Commentary on António Hespanha’s "Filhos da Terra"". e-Journal of Portuguese History (2021): https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:jshyyu2e/.
    10.26300/CDYM-1S85
  5. "An Instrumental Connection. Economic diplomacy, overseas prospects and arms trade between Portugal and Sweden (1640-1700)". Legatio. The Journal for Renaissance and Early Modern Diplomatic Studies, (2021):
  6. Edgar Pereira. "The Ordeals of Colonial Contracting: Reactions to and Repercussions of Two Failed State-Private Ventures in Habsburg Portugal (1622–1628)". Itinerario 43 01 (2019): 63-87. https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0165115319000068.
    10.1017/s0165115319000068
  7. Pereira, Edgar. "Seeing and typifying the enemy. Portuguese views on the Dutch and WIC men during the seizure of Angola (1641-1648)". Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 34 1 (2015): 35-50. https://www.zeegeschiedenis.nl/verschenen-artikelen/.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pereira, Edgar. "A Contractor Empire : Public-private partnerships and overseas expansion in Habsburg Portugal (1580-1640)". PhD, Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, 2020. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/92348.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/13 “Navegar y proteger la Carreira da India. Navegación comercial y militar portuguesa desde y hacia Asia (siglos XVI-XVIII)” Navegaciones en Flotas y Convoyes Durante la Edad Moderna
Faculdad de Geografia e Historia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) (Madrid, Spain)
2021/12/15 Provisioning the Lugares de África. Networks of private contractors and the maintenance of empire in Portugal's Moroccan frontier (1580-1640) XIX World Economic History Congress 2002
Campus Condorcet Paris-Aubervilliers (Paris, France)
2021/12/12 The West African contratos. Reappraising the Luso-African revenue-farms in the shadow of the Asiento de negros (16th-18th centuries) The Asiento and the Transatlantic Trade of Enslaved Africans (circa. 1580-1750). Trade Networks and Transnational Connections
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilha, Spain)
2021/10/07 O Negócio da Guerra no Portugal Moderno Seminário "Novas Perspectivas em História Moderna"
Dep. História do ISCTE e Grupo Hist. Moderna e Contemporânea do CIES-iscte (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/11/19 Um Império da Contratação. Parcerias Público-Privadas e Concessões estatais no Portugal Habsburgo (1580-1640) Ciclo de Webinários: "Temas de História Moderna"
Universidade do Minho. Mestrado em História (Portugal)
2019/11/16 Global Logistics and the Portuguese ‘Contractor State’ during the Union of the Crowns (1580-1640) 39th annual APHES Conference (Associação Portuguesa de Historia Económica e Social)
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2019/06/26 Interoceanic Dreams, Regional Realities: Interactions and Networks in the forgotten emporium of Glückstadt (1617-1700) Summer School in Economic and Social History
APHES (Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social), CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora) (Vila Viçosa, Portugal)
2019/05/08 O Aprovisionamento dos Lugares de África. Negócio, capital político e conexões transimperiais em torno da fronteira marroquina (1600-1640) Velhas e Novas Nobrezas das Monarquias Ibéricas (sécs. XVI-XVIII): Repensar os espaços, definir as dimensões
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2019/03/23 An Instrumental Connection? Economic Diplomacy and the International Arms Trade between Portugal and Sweden (1640-1680) Baltic Connections: Conference in Social Science History
University of Helsinki (Helsínquia, Finland)
2017/09/29 Monopolistic Entrepreneurship in an Oceanic Empire. The Portuguese crown, contractors and commercial connections in the seventeenth century The 17 provinces of the Low Countries and the Iberian Peninsula: New perspectives and methodologies
University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)
2017/06/15 The Forgotten Emporium: commercial aspirations and transnational connections in Seventeenth-century Glückstadt (1617-1700) Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland)
2016/05/30 The Forgotten Emporium: Visions of Overseas Commerce and Transnational Connections in 17th century Glückstadt European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
Universitat de València (Valência, Spain)
2016/05/28 The Ordeals of Colonial Contracting: Reactions and repercussions to failed State-private ventures in 17th century Portugal and her empire Joint Conference of the Association of Business History (ABA) and the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte E. V. (GUG)
Humboldt University (Berlim, Germany)
2016/01/15 Project Glückstadt. The origins of the Danish Atlantic The Danish Atlantic. A transdisciplinary symposium on the realities and effects of Denmarks participation in the transatlantic slave trade
Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark)
2015/07/15 Knowledge of business and the adjudication of overseas monopolies in the 17th century Portuguese empire”, paper presented at “Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges CHAM International Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/03/20 Bankruptcies, contratos and business portfolios in early seventeenth century Portuguese West Africa (1580-1640) 46th annual conference of the Association for Portuguese and Spanish Historical Studies
The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, United States)
2014/06/27 The Society's landed property in Goa after the expulsion of the Jesuits. Confiscation and Granting of property rights in late 18th century Estado da India International Conference "Property Rights, Land and Territory in the European Overseas Empires"
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/12/13 - Current Beyond King Manuel I. The Portuguese Empire in a Changing World, c. 1450-1550 (2022/07/06 - 2022/07/08)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, Portugal
2015/06/02 - 2015/06/05 Member of the Executive Committee of the "FEEGI in Europe Conference" (2015/06/02 - 2015/06/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - 2026 Seminário de Jovens Cientistas, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/07 - Current História de Portugal na Ásia História (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/10 - Current Curso Livre "Os mundos do global, do internacional e do transnacional. Problemas, atores, trajetórias" História (Outros) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/09/20 - Current Fontes, Métodos e Campos de Investigação História (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/02/05 - 2024/06 História dos Poderes Locais História (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2023/12/16 Seminário de Investigação: Problemas e Metodologias I História (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/09/20 - 2022/12/15 História de Portugal B2 (para alunos estrangeiros) Curso Anual de Língua e Cultura Portuguesa para Estrangeiros - Intermédio (B2) (Curso médio) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/01 From Dawn to Sunset. The Rise and Fall of Iberian Empires, 1415-1999” History (Master) Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
2016/09 - 2017/01 Portals of Globalization. Exchanging money, Goods and Ideas in Early modern Port-Cities (1500-1800) Portals of Globalization. Exchanging money, Goods and Ideas in Early modern Port-Cities (1500-1800) (Master) Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
2015/09 - 2016/01 Religion and Trade in the Construction of Empire, 1415-1776 History (Bachelor) Universiteit Leiden Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Netherlands
Distinctions

Award

2015 March Bloch Prize for the best MA Dissertation in Early Modern and Modern European History
European University Institute Department of History and Civilization, Italy