Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura

[Recensão a] SWEET, James H. (2025). Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 9780197692721

Pedro Miguel Silva

Recensão Crítica ao livro de Corey Farnsworth, Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon's Golden Age, 1668-1750

Pedro David Garcia Ribeiro

The centralization and exploration of the Leiria Pine Forest (Portugal, 1723-1807): the Real Fábrica da Madeira [Royal Wood Factory] as a political and economic instrument.

Diogo Moreno

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of political power in the management of resources in the Leiria Pine Forest. This intervention aimed centralise resource exploitation and was implemented throught the creation of the Real Fábrica da Madeira [Royal Wood Factory]. The factory operated in two production areas: sawmilling, between 1723-1774, and the production of tar and pitch, beginning in 1790. Each sector achieved different outcomes, influenced by both the organization of the pine forest’s economy and the production techniques applied at the factory. In sawmilling, the factory struggled to compete with the manual sawing sites already established within the forest. In contrast, in the tar and pitch sector, it proved more successful than the rudimentary kilns located on the forest’s outskirts. Local resistance to the factory also differed between the two sectors, being stronger against the centralization of sawmilling than against tar and pitch production.

Revisiting the Past Through Data: A Trend and Thematic Exploration of Historical Revisionism in Global Contexts

Amir Karimi

This study presents a rigorous bibliometric and thematic analysis of the evolving scholarly landscape of historical revisionism from 1988 to 2025, encompassing 290 documents across 254 sources. Employing quantitative indicators—including growth rates, citation metrics, co-authorship patterns, and thematic clustering—this research delineates the field's maturation, intellectual diversity, and geopolitical contours. Findings reveal sustained academic growth with notable shifts towards memory studies, nationalism, and ideological contestation, particularly amid the resurgence of right-wing populism and post-authoritarian memory politics. Thematic clusters elucidate interdisciplinary engagements spanning cultural memory, nationalism, metahistory, and contentious regional narratives such as East Asian wartime memory. Geographic analysis underscores Global North dominance alongside emerging Global South perspectives. Citation analysis highlights foundational and contemporary influential works reflecting methodological pluralism and critical reflexivity. This overview underscores historical revisionism as a dynamic, politically charged, and transdisciplinary domain, poised at the nexus of historiographical rigor and contemporary sociopolitical relevance.

Ecossistemas Culturais e Criativos: Uma Análise Crítica dos Paradigmas Atuais

ANTONIO ANDRADE

ABSTRACT

This essay critically examines the concept of "cultural and creative ecosystems" as a dominant paradigm in contemporary cultural policies. Through an analysis that combines theoretical foundations with critical observations on its practical limitations, it questions both the promises and pitfalls of this approach, especially in contexts of structural inequality such as Brazil. The central argument is that while the ecosystem metaphor offers valuable insights into interdependence, its uncritical application can mask power relations and reproduce the very exclusions it aims to overcome.