The Workshop in Early Modern History

To Obey from Afar: Salvador da Bahia’s City Council and the Governance of the Portuguese Atlantic during the Seventeenth Century

Pedro Cardim

Associate Professor of History at the New University of Lisbon; Visiting Professor, New York University; Board Member, CHAM – The Portuguese Center for Global History (New University of Lisbon).

Tomorrow, October 22, 5:00 p.m.

Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room

This presentation studies the way seventeenth-century Salvador da Bahia’s city council interacted with the Portuguese court, positioning itself as the responsible body for governing all Portuguese Atlantic non-European territories, i.e. not restricting itself to Bahia alone, yet also revealing a sense of attachment to the Americas.

Contact: Tamar Herzog, therzog@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literature