Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800

Bethencourt, Francisco. (Added Author). Curto, Diogo Ramada. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0521608910 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521846447 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780521608916 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780521846448 (hardback)
Physical Description: xx, 536 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The economy of the Portuguese empire / Stuart B. Schwartz -- 2. Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese empire, 1415-1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira -- 3. Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean : locating the Portuguese / Michael N. Pearson -- 4. The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic World / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- 5. The Portuguese in Africa / John K. Thornton -- 6. Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese empire, 1400-1800 / A. J. R. Russell-Wood -- 7. Political configurations and local powers / Francisco Bethencourt -- 8. Ecclesiastical structures and religious action / Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa -- 9. Portuguese expansion, 1400-1800 : encounters, negotiations, and interactions / Anthony Disney -- 10. Portuguese imperial and colonial culture / Diogo Ramada Curto -- 11. Language and literature in the Portuguese empire / Luis de Sousa Rebelo -- 12. The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luis de Moura Sobral -- 13. Science and technology in Portuguese navigation : the idea of experience in the sixteenth century / Francisco Contente Domingues -- 14. Portuguese expansion in a global context / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.