Title:
Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800 / edited by Francisco Bethencourt, Diogo Ramada Curto.
Author:
Bethencourt, Francisco.
Curto, Diogo Ramada.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Guimarنaes Sâa -- 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 / Luâis de Sousa Rebelo -- The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luâis 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 Fernâandez-Armesto.
Publisher:
Cambridge University P.,
Publication Place:
Cambridge :
ISBN:
9780521608916 (pbk.)
Subject:
Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.
Portugal -- History -- Modern, 1580-
Portugal -- Territorial expansion.
Portugal -- Colonies -- History.
Portugal -- Civilization.
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 Guimarنaes Sâa -- 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 / Luâis de Sousa Rebelo -- The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luâis 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 Fernâandez-Armesto.
Physical Description:
xx, 536 p. : ill., maps ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006011732-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006011732-t.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006011732-b.html
Publication Date:
2007.
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