Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800

Herausgeber: Bethencourt, Francisco; Ramada Curto, Diogo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update data and interpretations on the economic and financial trends of the Portuguese Empire. Interregional networks are analysed in a substantial way. Patterns of settlement, political configurations, ecclesiastical structures, and local powers are put in global context. Language and literature, the arts, and science and technology are revisited with refreshing and innovative approaches. The interaction between Portuguese and local people is studied in different contexts, while the entire imperial and colonial culture of the Portuguese world is looked at synthetically for the first time. In short, this book provides a broad understanding of the Portuguese Empire in its first four centuries as a factor in world history and as a major component of European expansion.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1046g
• ISBN-13: 9780521846448
• ISBN-10: 0521846447
• Artikelnr.: 24816676

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Norman Fiering; Introduction Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada
Curto translated by Neil Safier; Part I. Economics and Society: 1. The
economy of the Portuguese Empire Stuart Schwartz; 2. Costs and financial
trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1822 Jorge Pedreira; 3. Markets and
merchant communities in the Indian Ocean M. N. Pearson; 4. The economic
network of Portugal's Atlantic world Luis Felipe de Alencastro translated
by Marguerite I. Harrison; 5. The Portuguese in Africa John Thornton; Part
II. Politics and Institutions: 6. Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese
Empire John Russell-Wood; 7. Political configurations and local powers
Francisco Bethencourt; 8. Ecclesiastical structures and religious action
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; Part III. The Cultural World: 9. Encounters,
negotiations, and interactions Anthony Disney; 10. Portuguese imperial and
colonial culture Diogo Ramada Curto; 11. Language and literature in the
Portuguese Empire Luís Moura Sobral; 12. Science and technology in
Portuguese navigation: an essay on the idea of experience in the sixteenth
century Francisco C. Domingues translated by Neil Safier; Part IV. The
Comparative Dimension: 13. Portuguese expansion in a global context Felipe
Fernández-Armesto.