Universidade da Madeira

Degree in History, Lisbon University (Faculty of Arts and Humanities - 1980)
Master in History of Cultural and Political History/History of Culture (FCSH-UNL - 1986)
PhD Contemporary History, University of Madeira, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures (1998)
Aggregation, University of Madeira, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Management and Economy (2007)
The research focuses the study of the evolution of Madeira global business, in particular the Madeira wine industry and embroidery industries, and the role played by the government in that process. The publications are in the field of business history in journals such as Business History, or in the field of history of institutions in journals like Continuity and Change, and Análise Social; as well as books published by Routledge, Berhghahn, and Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Lisbon.

- Vinho da Madeira na segunda metade do século XVIII: contrato de colonia como contrato de plantação, Benedita Câmara, V International Conference XIX Congreso de la Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) XIV Encontro Rural RePort, Agua Y Desarrollo Rural en Perspectiva Histórica, 2026

- Remittances and Gentility in MadeiraWine Casks: From Asian Markets to British Tables, 1770s-1830s, Benedita Câmara e Leonor freire Costa, Diversidade XLIV Encontro da APHES, Évora, 2025

- A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756-1834, Benedita Câmara, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Robert Fredona, ISSN 0007, Business History Review, 98 (1) Spring, 2024, 38

- Remittances in old wine casks: the East India Madeira Wine, Leonor Costa e Benedita Câmara, Annual Congress of the European Business History Association, EBHA 2024, 2024

- «Port Wine and Madeira Wine (1932-1933 and 1940-1972): a different path to the Appellation of Controlled Origin (A.O.C.) system» Marcas e Denominações de origem: História e Identidade, Benedita Câmara, 978-989-8970-53-4, CITCEM Universidade do Porto, 2023 1

- A Mercantilist Brand: The British East India Company and Madeira Wine, 1756-1834, Benedita Câmara, Teresa da Silva Lopes and Robert Fredona, 2044-768X, Business History Review, 2023, 38

- The opportunities and difficulties of Madeira wine merchants in the Orient, Benedita Câmara, II Congress Globalization and Growth in the History of East and Southeast Asia (https://testuma-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/beneditac_staff_uma_pt/EZu1XTqJazJPnXFvaY7i1Y4B9KmK2y_5_sRt2UYwCNi9QQ?e, 2023

- (in)Sustentabilidades, (in)Sustentabilidades XLI Encontro da APHES, 2022

- The British East India Company as a ?Hydra Brand?: The Case of Madeira Wine, Benedita Câmara; Teresa da Silva Lopes, Robert Fredona, https://thebhc.org/meeting-program/35684, 2022

- Master Degree in História Cultural e Política, 1986, Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Fac. Ciências Sociais e Humanas

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