A. R. Disney (Victoria La Trobe University)

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire

From Beginnings to 1807, Volume I: Portugal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Volume I concerns the formation and subsequent history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807.

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Produktdetails

• A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780521603973
• ISBN-10: 0521603978
• Artikelnr.: 25902335

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.