| A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Volume 2: From Beginnings to 1807: The Portuguese Empire Contributor(s): Disney, A. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 052140908X ISBN-13: 9780521409087 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Dewey: 946.9 |
| LCCN: 2008039017 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.75 lbs) 482 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Portuguese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d' tre 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. The 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Disney, A. R.: - A. R. Disney was educated at the University of Oxford and Harvard University and has taught history at Melbourne and La Trobe Universities. His publications include Twilight of the Pepper Empire (1978) and numerous articles, papers, and essays, published variously in the Economic History Review, Studia, Indica, Mare Liberum, Anais de Historia de Alem-mar, and other journals and proceedings. |