A history of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire. From beginnings to 1807. Vol. 2: The Portugese Empire
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521738224
- ISBN10 0521738229
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 480
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2009
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
A history of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire. From beginnings to 1807. Vol. 2: The Portugese Empire
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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.