Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800
By: edited by Francisco Bethencourt, Diogo Ramada Curto.
Contributors: Bethencourt, Francisco.; Curto, Diogo Ramada.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780521608916; 9780521846448
Subjects: Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580; Portugal -- History -- Modern, 1580-; Portugal -- Territorial expansion; Portugal -- Colonies -- History; Portugal -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economy of the Portuguese Empire / Stuart B. Schwartz; title: Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415; title: 1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira; title: Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean : locating the Portuguese / Michael N. Pearson; title: The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic world (translated by Marguerite Itamar Harrison) / Luis Felipe de Alencastro; title: The Portuguese in Africa / John K. Thornton; title: Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire, 1400-1800 / A. J. R. Russell-Wood; title: Political configurations and local powers / Francisco Bethencourt; title: Ecclesiastical structures and religious action / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; title: Portuguese expansion, 1400-1800 : encounters, negotiations, and interactions / Anthony Disney; title: Portuguese imperial and colonial culture / Diogo Ramada Curto; title: Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire / Luís de Sousa Rebelo; title: The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luís de Moura Sobral; title: Science and technology in Portuguese navigation : the idea of  experience in the Sixteenth Century (translated by Neil Safier) / Francisco Contente Domingues; title: Portuguese expansion in a global context / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.