This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the
Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between
communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national
identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises
studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology,
and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of
the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state
propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship,
and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an
understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different
groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment,
maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola,
Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and
East Timor.