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The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions.
List of contents
1. The Forest or the Tree? Colonial Forestry and Environmental Debates in the Goan Periodical Press.
José Ferreira
2. Iron Message: Railways in the German Colonial Press.
Corinna Schäfer
3. Infrastructure in the Making: The Ottoman Railway Company as Portrayed by the Smyrna Mail.
Elvan Cobb
4. Tropical Building: A Typology Defined in British Military Engineering Journals.
Pedro Guedes
5. Illustration as propaganda in the nineteenth-century periodical press: British Empire building on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo.
Anne Shelley
6. Educating the colonial spouse or pushing the agenda of Tropical Modernism in the Belgian Congo? Architecture and the coloniser's house in the pages of the Bulletin de l'Union des Femmes Coloniales.
Johan Lagae
7. Reconstructing Templescapes in Goa: Santeri-Śāntādurgā and Other Female Deities through the Compromissos of the Boletim Official
Cibele Aldrovandi
8. Conflicted Identities: Bombay's Catholic communities, its buildings and the Press.
Alice Santiago Faria and Sidh Losa Mendiratta
9. Constructing the Empire: Italian Colonial Architecture and the practice of ambientazione.
Monica Palmeri
10. 'Old Goa must be brought back to life': The restoration of Old Goa's monuments in the Goan periodical press during the Portuguese colonial period.
Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos
11. Cabo Verde Boletim de Propaganda e Informação (1949-64): from propaganda to the demands for change at the periphery of the Portuguese empire.
Ana Vaz Milheiro
About the author
Alice Santiago Faria is a researcher at the CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she coordinates the research group Art, History and Heritage. Architect with a Ph.D. in Art History. Member of IGSCP-PE. She is interested in the study of Public Works in the former Portuguese empire during the long nineteenth century.
Anne Shelley is an artist and researcher with a background in English, Literature and Art Education. Her PhD at the University of Western Australia examined nineteenth-century European women artists who travelled to the Middle East. Her thesis focused on Victorian military artist Elizabeth Butler and her sketches of Egypt.
Sandra Ataíde Lobo is a Researcher of CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. PhD in History and Theory of Ideas. Co-promoted the birth of IGSCP-PE. Among other interests, works on press and intellectual histories with particular focus in Goa and Portugal, colonialism and anti-colonialism, literature and politics, internationalism, cosmopolitan historiography.
Summary
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions.
