The Portuguese Empire 1415 1808

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421441207

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The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808 by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf

Winner of the Dom João de Castro Prize for Portuguese History This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that previously have been constrained by strict chronological approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.

Author : Charles Ralph Boxer
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000445700

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The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825 by Charles Ralph Boxer Pdf

A study of Europe's first great maritime empire, which embraced three continents and lasted through four centuries.

Author : Bailey Wallys Diffie,George Davison Winius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Portugal
ISBN : OCLC:3488742

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Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 by Bailey Wallys Diffie,George Davison Winius Pdf

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0312094272

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A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf

This is not specialist political, imperial, economic or religious history. 'These aspects, ' Russell-Wood says, 'have been ably covered by others.' What fascinates him is movement. 'Taking movement as my underlying and unifying theme has freed me to cross oceans, to move form one continent to another, and escape within reason the tyranny of chronology.

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000385646

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A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf

Author : Bailey W. Diffie,George D. Winius
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0816608504

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Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 by Bailey W. Diffie,George D. Winius Pdf

No other people in history made such extensive geographical explorations as Portuguese. During the course of the fifteenth century they were the first to reveal to Europe the unknown coast of West Africa, reaching and passing the Cape of Good Hope. They made the first all-water voyage from the West to the East in 1497-99. Cabral touched on Brazil en route to India in 1500. Many of the East Indies islands had been visited by Portuguese ships before Magellan began the first voyage around the world in 1519. Christopher Columbus largely learned his trade as navigator in Portugal. By the end of the sixteenth century the Portuguese flag was flying around the world. The question arises of why the small country of Portugal led the way in exploration in the fifteenth century. This volume provides not only a narrative of the spread of the Portuguese empire but new interpretations and analyses of the history, such as a discussion of how Portuguese power differed in Africa, India, and the Far East, and an analysis of the empire's failure as a business enterprise.

Author : Patrick Wilcken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 0747568693

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Empire Adrift by Patrick Wilcken Pdf

In 1807, the Portuguese prince regent Dom João made an extraordinary decision. Although horrified by the idea of sea travel, Napoleon's troops were closing in on Lisbon so he opted to transplant his entire court and government to Portugal's largest colony, Brazil. 10,000 aristocrats, ministers, priests and servants clambered aboard the rickety fleet. After a rough passage they spilled off their ships bedraggled and lice-ridden to the astonishment of their new-world subjects. Thus began a thirteen-year period of imperial rule from a 'tropical Versailles' set against the city's jungle-clad mountains. But this only partially obscured the brutal workings of what was then the largest slaving port in the Americas. While the court grappled with the dark side of its own empire, Brazil was coming of age. Patrick Wilcken brings this remarkable period to the life, blending vivid contemporary testament with a rich evocation of a time in history when European royalty went native.

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637165900

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The Portuguese Empire by Captivating History Pdf

Author : Charles Ralph Boxer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025303652

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Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825 by Charles Ralph Boxer Pdf

Three lectures given at the University of Virginia in November, 1962.

Author : M. D. D. Newitt
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859892573

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The First Portuguese Colonial Empire by M. D. D. Newitt Pdf

The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century extended from Brazil to China.

Author : Anthony R. Disney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521409087

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A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire by Anthony R. Disney Pdf

A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal's formation and history up to 1807 and of its acquisition of a wide-flung maritime empire from the early fifteenth century.

Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571290918

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Conquerors by Roger Crowley Pdf

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - a epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.

Author : A. R. Disney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107717640

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A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, Portugal by A. R. Disney Pdf

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 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.

Author : Diogo Ramada Curto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207071

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Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects by Diogo Ramada Curto Pdf

Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Author : Hugh Cagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196636

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Assembling the Tropics by Hugh Cagle Pdf

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.