The Portuguese internal colonization: the country that could have been, but it was not

The policies of internal colonization played a fundamental role in the nation-state building process, as well as in the transformation of the rural landscape. In Portugal, the colonization of common lands (baldios) had the objective of increasing agricultural production, to stop the proletarianizati...

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Main Authors: Moreira Pinto Miguel, Couto Joana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:SHS Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2019/04/shsconf_modscapes2018_02002.pdf