Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery

Time to Eat the Dogs

• Episode: Portuguese Exploration After the Age of Discovery
• Website: Time to Eat the Dogs
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• Duration: 00:38:32
• Published: 2021-06-27 21:25

Catarina Madruga talks about Portuguese exploration in the nineteenth century as European powers made plans to conquer Africa and colonize its peoples. Madruga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum of Berlin. She’s the author of “Expert at a Distance: Barbosa du Bocage and the Production of Scientific Knowledge on Africa,” published in the Journal for the History of Science and Technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices