This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor.

José Luís Garcia is Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He recently edited Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet (2016). Chandrika Kaul is Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews, UK. Her most recent publication is titled Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience: Britain and India in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2014). Filipa Subtil is Assistant Professor at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal. Alexandra Dias Santos is Assistant Professor at IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal.