A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire Volume 2
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 4/13/2009
EAN 9780521738224, ISBN10: 0521738229
Paperback, 480 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious 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 1 concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, whilst this volume traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.
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.