Ernestine CARREIRA
48 yeras
Professor at the University of Provence
Mail: Ernestine.carreira@univ-provence.fr
Academic background
Student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, Associate (1986), she defended a thesis in history in EHESS entitled "Relations between Portuguese and French in India in the second half of the eighteenth century" . Lecturer at the University of Provence since 1993, she headed the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies since 2004.
Current Research
Since 1993, under the CEMAF-CNRS (Centre for the Study of African worlds), she worked on the trading communities in the Indian Ocean from Indian and European sources. Her publications have focused on the slave trade Atlantic flights, production and trade of coffee, shipbuilding, and more recently on the trade and financing for the opium trade between India and China. In sum, what are the links between the Atlantic economic centers and peripheries in Asia that were the guiding thread of this research. In addition, she published a study on the politics of Portuguese India and its relationship with British India in the nineteenth century. More recently, interest has focused on the intellectual output of Goa in the nineteenth century, and especially the historiography on the women's society. Currently she is preparing a memorandum of authorization (HDR) on Goan migrant elites in Bombay and Calcutta, and their social and business practices. She works primarily on networks of political and religious influence, and their impact on Portuguese India in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Featured publications
- « Construction navale en Orient et renaissance des routes maritimes vers l'Atlantique portugais aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : les chantiers de Daman », dans Éclats d'Empire : du Brésil à Macao, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003.
- « O Estado português no oriente, aspectos politicos, (1660-1815) », dans Nova História da Expansão, vol. IX, chap. 1, 2006.
- « De la piastre a l’opium: connexions commerciales entre les espaces périphériques des empires portugais et espagnol a la fin du XVIIIe siècle », dans Actes du congrès SHF Cultures Lusophones et Hispanophones : penser la relation, Paris, Indigo, 2010.
- « Un empire à vendre : stratégies d’appropriation des ports de l’Estado da Índia par les compagnies britannique et française (1661-1813) » dans Actes du colloque international L’empire portugais face aux autres empires, XVe-XIXe siècles, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2008.
