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As we stated at the beginning of this book, the true ‘mission’ of Portugal’s civilising imperial programmes was to create the appropriate conditions to prepare and induce, forcefully if necessary, the natives to work in the creation of new Brazils in Africa. The widespread formulation of political, moral, legal, economic and sociocultural doctrines that proclaimed the irreplaceable civilisational value of labour demonstrates why this fact constituted the cornerstone of the new imperial formation.
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Apart from this volume and the references already provided see also Patrícia Ferraz Matos, The Colours of the Empire ( New York: Berghahn, 2013 ).
For a development of this argument see Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, ‘A Escrita Plural dos Impérios: Economia, Geopolítica e Religião na obra de Andrew Porter’, in Andrew Porter, Imperialismo Europeu, 1860–1914 (Lisbon: Edições 70, Coleção HistórialiangqiSociedade, 2011), especially 30–48.
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, Internacionalismo e Império (forthcoming 2015).
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Jerónimo, M.B. (2015). Conclusion. In: The ‘Civilising Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism, 1870–1930. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355911_7
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