A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Hardback Set
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Hardback Set
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GBPThe Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of how all this happened – the first such account to appear in English for more than a generation. Volume I concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, and Volume II traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.
- Unusual in covering both Portugal and the empire in twin volumes
- The first in-depth history of Portugal and its empire before the 19th century published in English since 1972 and first such fully-documented history in English
- Unusual in including the empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries
Product details
June 2009Multiple copy pack
9780521762328
365 pages
322 × 250 × 72 mm
1.75kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume I:
- 1. Hunter-gatherers to Iron Age farmers
- 2. The Roman experience
- 3. The Germanic kingdoms
- 4. Gharb al-Andalus
- 5. The medieval kingdom
- 6. The fourteenth century
- 7. The making of Avis Portugal
- 8. The golden age
- 9. The tarnished age
- 10. Habsburg Portugal
- 11. Restoration and reconstruction
- 12. The age of gold and Baroque splendour
- 13. The age of Pombal
- 14. The late eighteenth century: finale of the old regime. Volume II:
- 1. North Africa
- 2. Exploring the coasts of Atlantic Africa
- 3. Engaging with Atlantic Africa
- 4. The Atlantic islands and fisheries
- 5. Breakthrough to maritime Asia
- 6. Empire in the East
- 7. Informal presence in the East
- 8. Brazil: seizing and keeping possession
- 9. Formation of colonial Brazil
- 10. Late colonial Brazil
- 11. Holding on in India: the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 12. Eastern empire in the late colonial era: peripheries.
