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A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668
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 aid expansion into Africa and the Atlantic islands, as well as how, through rivalry with Castile, this grew into a worldwide commercial enterprise. Finally, he considers how resilient the Portuguese overseas communities were, surviving wars and natural disasters, and fending off attacks by the more heavily armed English and Dutch invaders until well into the 1600s.
Including a detailed bibliography and glossary, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 is an invaluable textbook for all those studying this fascinating period of European expansion
List of Maps Glossary Preface 1. The Origins of Portuguese Expansion to 1469 2. Portuguese Expansion 1469-1500 3. Portuguese Expansion in the East and the Atlantic, 1500 to 1515 4. The Great Portuguese Diaspora 1515-1550 5. The Portuguese Empire at its Height 1550-1580 6. Challenge and Response: The Portuguese Empire 1580-1620 7. Defeat and Survival 1620-1668 8. Understanding Portuguese Expansion
Malyn Newitt is Chales Boxer Professor of History at King's College London. His many publications include The First Portuguese Colonial Empire , A History of Mozambique and East Africa .
\"Malyn Newitt’s aim simply has been ‘to give a coherent account of a very complex topic for a new generation of students of European overseas expansion’ and ‘to restore a chronological perspective to the story of the empire.’ To do this in less than three hundred pages is no means a task, but the end product lives up to the promise. Anyone familiar with the history of the Portuguese empire should have it on the shelve.\" --Itinerario
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Corruption in the Iberian empires : greed, custom, and colonial networks
\"This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits, jail them, or, sometimes, have them 'garroted and their corpses publicly displayed'\"--Provided by publisher.
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Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740-1932
In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola from 1800 to 1932. Mozambique is a secondary area as well as late colonial times in Brazil.
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El mundo de los virreyes en las monarquías de España y Portugal
El gobierno de unos imperios de escala planetaria, como los que crearon españoles y portugueses a finales del siglo XV, requirió un esfuerzo titánico: conseguir que las órdenes dictadas en Lisboa y Madrid alcanzaran y fueran ejecutadas en puntos del planeta tan lejanos como Goa, México, Lima, Salvador de Bahía o Río de Janeiro era algo que sólo se podía esperar con una sofisticada organización que, en sí misma, constituía un desafío a los recursos logísticos disponibles. El más socorrido de estos recursos fue la creación de virreinatos. Hasta ahora, la atención que los historiadores han dedicado a los virreyes ha sido, ciertamente, desigual.
Existe un buen número de estudios, algunos ya clásicos. En todos ellos, los virreyes ocupan, sin embargo, un lugar relativamente secundario, ya que el objetivo principal es examinar el encuadramiento de estos territorios, con una larga tradición de gobierno propio, en la nueva estructura de signo imperial. Este libro ofrece una completa visión comparada y de conjunto de los resortes y fundamentos del poder virreinal de las monarquías ibéricas. [Texto de la editorial]
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Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Portugal made great efforts to tie its territories together, but the Luso-Brazilian empire eventually succumbed to revolution like its British, French and Spanish counterparts. This book reveals the links and relationships between Portugal and Brazil that survived the demise of empire and shaped the trajectories of the two countries.
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The 'civilising mission' of Portuguese colonialism, 1870-1930
This book provides an historical, critical analysis of the doctrine of 'civilising mission' in Portuguese colonialism in the crucial period from 1870 to 1930. Exploring international contexts and transnational connections, this 'civilising mission' is analysed and assessed by examining the employment and distribution of African manpower.
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