A history of Portugal and the Portuguese empire : from beginnings to 1807. Volume 1, Portugal / A. R. Disney. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Disney, A. R. (Anthony R.), 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portugal--History.

Portugal.

Portugal--Colonies--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

A History of Portugal & the Portuguese Empire

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Hunter-gathers to Iron Age farmers

The Roman experience

The Germanic kingdoms

Gharb al- Andalus

The medieval kingdom

The fourteenth century

The making of avis Portugal

The golden age

The tarnished age

Habsburg Portugal

Restoration and reconstruction

The age of gold and baroque splendour

The age of Pombal

The late eighteenth century: finale of the old regime.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-71378-1

1-139-17535-1

0-511-53250-4

0-511-53159-1

0-511-53341-1

OCLC:

609834514