Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400–1800

Editors

Francisco Bethencourt, University of London
Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor, King's College, University of London. He is the author of O Imaginario da Magia and L'inquisition à l'époque moderne: Espagne, Portugal, Italie, XVe-XIXe siècles, and the editor of História da Expansão Portuguesa (with Kirti Chadhuri) and A Memória da Nação (with Diogo Ramda Curto). He has been Director of the National Library of Portugal and the Gulbenkian Foundation Cultural Center in Paris.

Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence
Diogo Ramada Curto is Vasco da Gama Professor, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of O Discurso Politico em Portugal, and the editor of The Jesuits as Cultural Intermediaries, La Cartografia Europea tra Primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo (with Angelo Cattaneo), O Tempo de Vasco da Gama and A Memória da Nação (with Francisco Bethencourt). He has been a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a Visiting Professor at Yale and Brown Universities.

Contributors

Francisco Bethencourt, Diogo Ramada Curto, Stuart Schwartz, Jorge Pedreira, M. N. Pearson, Luis Felipe de Alencastro, John Thornton, John Russell-Wood, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Anthony Disney, Luís Moura Sobral, Francisco C. Domingues, Felipe Fernández-Armesto