Harper, 2011. — 560 p. Historian Nigel Cliff delivers a sweeping, radical reinterpretation of Vasco da Gama’spioneering voyages, revealing their significance as a decisive turning point inthe struggle between Christianity and Islam — a series of events which forever altered the relationship between East and West. Perfect for readers of Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage,...
Random House, 2015. — 364 p. In Conquerors , New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers — a tactical advantage no other country could match. Portugal’s discovery of a sea route to India,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 332 p. Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries. S. Lay has...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 300 p. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America. Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions of a late medieval society were deployed to...
Reaktion Books, 2009. — 256 p. Despite its modest size, Portugal has played a major part in the development of Europe and the modern world. In Portugal in European and World History Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world — from early Moorish times to the English Alliance of 1650–1900 and through the country’s liberal revolution in...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 452 p. The traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements is that they are largely egalitarian, homogeneous, and survivals of archaic forms of 'agrarian collectivism'. In this book, based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, Brian Juan O'Neill offers a different perspective, questioning prevailing views...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. — 229 p. Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late 15th Century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. At the height of Portugal's maritime influence, it had created an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal's direct political influence in Asia was comparatively short-lived, its...
Brill Academic Pub, 2007. — 351 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400 – 1500 69). In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 340 p. Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological structure. Considers the latest developments...
3rd edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 428 p. — ISBN10: 0810860880; ISBN13: 9780810860889. Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year...
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