A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807

by A. R. Disney
ISBN-10:
052140908X
ISBN-13:
9780521409087
Pub. Date:
04/13/2009
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
052140908X
ISBN-13:
9780521409087
Pub. Date:
04/13/2009
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807

by A. R. Disney
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Overview

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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521409087
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/13/2009
Series: A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Hardback Set
Pages: 482
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Hunter-gatherers to Iron Age farmers; 2. The Roman experience; 3. The Germanic kingdoms; 4. Gharb al-Andalus; 5. The medieval kingdom; 6. The fourteenth century; 7. The making of Avis Portugal; 8. The golden age; 9. The tarnished age; 10. Habsburg Portugal; 11. Restoration and reconstruction; 12. The age of gold and baroque splendour; 13. The age of Pombal; 14. The late eighteenth century: finale of the old regime.
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