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An edition of A history of Portugal and the Portuguese empire (2009)

A history of Portugal and the Portuguese empire

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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."--Publisher's web site.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
418

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History, Colonies, Portugal, history

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Portugal
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
946.9
Library of Congress
DP517 .D57 2009, DP517.D57 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
418

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22528434M
ISBN 13
9780521843188, 9780521603973
LCCN
2008039017
OCLC/WorldCat
253634566
LibraryThing
8380205
Goodreads
6596560

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Work ID
OL13609197W

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