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A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 2: From Beginnings to 1807: The Portuguese Empire (Volume 2) 1st Edition

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The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d’être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe’s outer fringe. 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. The 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. Volume I concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, and Volume II traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.

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“This trenchant second volume sets a new standard for reflecting on the Portuguese world empire during the early modern period. Covering the Lusitanian presence on five continents, it pays attention simultaneously to political decisions of opposing court factions in Portugal, to the leading role of noble captains and agents working inside and outside formal colonial institutions, and to their involvement in a variety of local cultures. As a result, Anthony Disney is able to emphasize the centrality of Portuguese colonial situations as cultural hybrids.” -Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence and Universidade Nova de Lisboa

“Anthony Disney has provided in this impressive two-volume survey of the history of Portugal and its overseas empire to the beginning of the nineteenth century a work of synthesis that has long been needed. Up-to-date in its scholarship, lucid and coherent in its exposition, his account, skillfully blending narrative and analysis, will immediately take its place as the essential starting-point for all those interested in the origins and character of the first truly global empire in world history.” -Sir John Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford

“The history of the Portuguese world is barnacled with accretions: traditional errors, apparently ineradicable myths, partisan controversies, irrational passions. Anthony Disney has scraped the bottom and set the ship to rights. His book is sober but engaging, meticulous but well paced, comprehensive but concise: a monument of scholarship and discernment, which everyone interested in the subject will want to hand.” -Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Tufts University

“This book provides a comprehensive and stimulating view of the history of the early modern Portuguese Empire. Without losing sight of chronology and geography, political projects and economic trends, Disney skillfully elaborates on key issues of the social history of Overseas Portugal, such as the nature of colonial societies or the relevance of informal settlements. The author masters an impressive range of primary sources and secondary materials and builds on them to offer a refreshing global history of the Portuguese Empire that will undoubtedly stand as reference in the field for many years to come.” -Jorge Flores, Brown University

“Disney's volume provides a full economic and political outline of a truly global maritime enterprise. It is the most accessible and up to date history of the Portuguese Empire available in English.” -Stuart Schwartz, Yale University

"This long-awaited volume by Anthony Disney possesses all the qualities we have come to expect of his scholarship. It is balanced, sober and written with clarity of vision and purpose. Four decades after Charles Boxer’s classic work on the Portuguese seaborne empire, we at last have another elegant synthesis that takes on the whole of the Portuguese overseas enterprise from 1400 to 1800 armed with the fruits of the latest research. Imperial historians of a comparative bent will be obliged to read this work, and students of European expansion and the Iberian world will certainly find it on their reading lists. It is unlikely to be replaced for another generation." -Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of History, UCLA

"A remarkable achievement, combining rigour with lucidity and offering expert guidance across a complex and varied historical terrain." Times Literary Supplement

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A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal's formation and history up to 1807 and of its acquisition of a wide-flung maritime empire from the early fifteenth century.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (April 13, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 482 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521738229
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521738224
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.46 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1.09 x 9.25 inches

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a lot of information that is really worth knowing
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021
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If you want to understand modern world history - start here. All other modern world history starts when Portugal figured out how to get beyond the Atlantic, the across the Atlantic. Gives you a non-Euro-centric view of the world as well as a European point of view. And, finally, a history book has a (relatively) adequate number of maps. I learned a lot of geography from this book. I learned to see the global map from a non-European point of view, from a sailor's point of view.

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AJA
Great outline for those interested in the history of Portugal
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2023
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Good to get acquainted with the main events concerning Portugese history. Fluently wtitten.

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Good book in good condition shipped quickly
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019
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This is a standard book in the area--there is nothing to criticize about it.

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Albert Silva
Portugal's people and history
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2013
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This history of Portugal was very easy to read and follow. Very informative of the era that was discussed. This is Vol. No. 2 only. If you were looking for the beginnings of the Portuguese you will be disappointed. It is not discussed in this vol.

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Diana Chen
This book was so good I already have it and I paid again for the ebook from Amazon..
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2013
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...due to certainness of importance. Then I deleted it anyway to be bought again when it definitely catches my attention

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jean francois DREVET
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2015
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excellent book, a pity that the analysis stops in 1807!!

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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015
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good read lots history names and dates overwhelm at times but overall very good broad overview of Portuguese history

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Lucid and scholoarly
Reviewed in Germany on December 4, 2023
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The best overall account of Portugal's age of exploration available in English. There are other works that zone in on specific individuals or periods, but this one gives the sweeping overview, and does it very well indeed.

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Very good overview
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2020
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Really liked the book. Perhaps it goes too in depth in some aspects that don't interest me too much, but i can't fault the author for that, and it is well written and touches all the parts of the Portuguese Empire; very happy with the purchase of both volumes

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Fernando Cevallos Fresneda
Académico que vale para todos
Reviewed in Spain on February 27, 2019
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UN libro académico que vale para cualquiera que quiera saber sobre el imperio portugués

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Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2017
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Interesting

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RICHARD BROUGH
A Excellent Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2021
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Very Interesting & Great Maps

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