Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Volume 2 concentrates on the history of Portugal's empire, which extended into North, West, and East Africa the Atlantic islands maritime Asia and Brazil. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of the history of Portugal and its empire up to the start of the nineteenth century. As the King of Spain was also King of Portugal, Portuguese colonies became the subject of attacks by. Disney bases this work on all the latest scholarship published on Portuguese history as he did with Volume One. Volume 1 concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, whilst this volume traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire. The realms continued to have separate administrations. This volume covers the history of the Portuguese Empire beginning with the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa and the exploration missions sponsored by Henry the Navigator down to 1807 and the late colonial era. 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. 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.
With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. (Eyewitness A history of Bradfield CollegeArthur Francis Leach. The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania.
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