A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire : From Beginnings to 1807 Paperback / softback
by A. R. (La Trobe University, Victoria) Disney
Part of the A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Paperback Set series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:482 pages, 19 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2009
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- ISBN:9780521738224
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:482 pages, 19 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521738224
