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A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire
Anthony R. Disney
其他書名
From Beginnings to 1807
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2009-04-13
主題
History / Europe / General
History / World
History / Europe / Spain
History / Europe / Portugal
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN
052140908X
9780521409087
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TtMovZSCxn8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.