Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800 / edited by Francisco Bethencourt, Diogo Ramada Curto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bethencourt, Francisco.

Curto, Diogo Ramada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territorial expansion.

Portugal--History--Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.

Portugal.

History.

Portugal--History--Modern, 1580-.

Portugal--Territorial expansion.

Portugal--Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Portugal--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xx, 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contents:

The economy of the Portuguese Empire / Stuart B. Schwartz

Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415

1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira

Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean : locating the Portuguese / Michael N. Pearson

The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic world (translated by Marguerite Itamar Harrison) / Luis Felipe de Alencastro

The Portuguese in Africa / John K. Thornton

Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire, 1400-1800 / A. J. R. Russell-Wood

Political configurations and local powers / Francisco Bethencourt

Ecclesiastical structures and religious action / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

Portuguese expansion, 1400-1800 : encounters, negotiations, and interactions / Anthony Disney

Portuguese imperial and colonial culture / Diogo Ramada Curto

Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire / Luís de Sousa Rebelo

The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luís de Moura Sobral

Science and technology in Portuguese navigation : the idea of experience in the Sixteenth Century (translated by Neil Safier) / Francisco Contente Domingues

Portuguese expansion in a global context / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521846448

0521846447

9780521608916

0521608910

OCLC:

67361089

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