Joseph da Costa - Leonhard Thurneysser von Thurn’s ‘Natural History of Portugal’: A Sixteenth Century Construction of Race

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Joseph da Costa is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Language at the University of Oxford. After completing his PhD in History at King’s College London, he has taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently turning his doctoral dissertation, ‘Decoloniality and Early Colonial Thought: Grammar and Cartography in the Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Expansion’ into a book. 

 

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