Hugo Silveira Pereira
Member of the Executive Committee
Auxiliary Researcher
Department of Applied Sciences, FCT/NOVA
Research interests
- History of Technology;
- History of Railways;
- History of Transport;
- Photography and landscape studies;
- Business History.
Projects
- "STMgram - Photography and the construction of technological and scientific landscapes in Portugal (1850-1914)", (CEEC 2017), 2019-2025.
- "Antropolands - Engineering the Anthropocene: The role of colonial Science, Technology and Medicine on changing of the African landscape", (PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014), 2016-2018.
- "Colónias, progresso e investimento: os caminhos-de-ferro ultramarinos (1870-1914) / Colonies, progress and investment: Portuguese overseas railways (1870-1914)", post-doc research project, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/95212/2013), 2014-2017.
Publications (selection)
- Pereira, Hugo Silveira. "Expertise and policy-making: Main actors, debates and outcomes in the making of the Portuguese railway network (1850–90)". The Journal of Transport History, OnlineFirst (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022526620908585
- Pereira, Hugo Silveira. "A railway travel narrative in 1882 Portugal". Studies in Travel Writing, 23:3 (2019): 217-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1718838
- Pereira, Hugo Silveira. "The ambaca railway in angola: History of a failed public-private partnership (1885-1914 and briefly onwards)". Revista de Historia Industrial, 28:77 (2019): 53-91. https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi.v28i77.28537
- Pereira, Hugo Silveira. "Cultura material, progresso, civilização e identidade nacional: Os caminhos de ferro coloniais em Angola e Moçambique (c. 1870 - c. 1915)". Revista Tempo e Argumento, 11:27 (2019): 221-254. http://dx.doi.org/10.5965/2175180311272019221.
- Hugo Silveira Pereira; Ian J. Kerr. "Railways and Economic Development in India and Portugal: The Mormugão and Tua Lines Compared, ca. 1880 to ca. 1930, and Briefly Onwards". Revista Brasileira de História, 39:81 (2019): 209-234. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472019v39n81-10.
