Ângela Domingues

Ângela Domingues is a Portuguese historian who specialises in the History of Colonial Brazil and is the director of the Department of Human Sciences of the Institute for Scientific Tropical Research (I.I.C.T.) in Lisbon. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of the Portuguese Discoveries and Overseas Expansion and has taught Undergraduate, M.A. and Ph.D. level courses about Brazilian colonial history.

Her historiographical work has focused on the fields of scientific and geographical knowledge in Northern Brazil, contacts and communications in colonial Brazil during the 16th century and power equations and colonisation in the Amazon region during the second half of the 18th century. She has authored several books and articles on these subjects.

When The Amerindians Were Vassals: Power Equations in Northern Brazil (1750-1800)

Politics, Power & Perspectives: Essays in the History of Colonial Brazil