In this volume historians, anthropologists, musicologists, political scientists and literary scholars address different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and other parts of the world. Migrants, traders, writers, freemasons, architects, conservative and postcolonial politicians are among the figures analysed here.

Preface  Francisco Bethencourt Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Cosmopolitanism: The Fortunes of a Word  Francisco Bethencourt Part 1: Expansion and Empire 2 On Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Culturalism: An Enquiry into the Business Practices and Multiple Identities of the Portuguese Merchants of Amsterdam  Catia Antunes 3 Pluralism, Violence and Empire: The Portuguese New Christians in the Atlantic World  Toby Green 4 Cosmopolitan Bravado: Gendered Agency and the Afro-Atlantic Encounter  Philip J. Havik 5 Early Modern Imperialism and Cosmopolitanism  Francisco Bethencourt Part 2: Early Modern Civility 6 Music and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Lusophone World  David R.M. Irving 7 Women Writers in an International Context: Was the Marchioness of Alorna (1750–1839) Cosmopolitan?  Vanda Anastácio 8 Freemasonry and Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Hipólito José da Costa (1774–1823)  Paulo H. de M. Arruda Part 3: Modern Cultural Practices 9 Cosmopolitanism versus Internationalism: Távora, Siza and Souto Moura  Giovanni Leoni and Howard Sugar 10 Cosmopolitan Trends in the Class Structure of Pepetela’s Work  Phillip Rothwell 11 Migrant Cosmopolitanism: Ritual and Cultural Innovation among Azorean Immigrants in the usa  João Leal Part 4: Modern Political Practices 12 The Appeal of Fascism: Reactionary Cosmopolitanism in Early 20th-Century Portugal  António Costa Pinto 13 The New Elite, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Inequality in Contemporary Angola  Ricardo Soares de Oliveira Index