Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800 / edited by Francisco Bethencourt, Diogo Ramada Curto.

Other author Bethencourt, Francisco.
Other author Curto, Diogo Ramada.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxx, 536 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

Contents The economy of the Portuguese Empire / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415--1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira -- Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean : locating the Portuguese / Michael N. Pearson-- The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic world (translated by Marguerite Itamar Harrison) / Luis Felipe de Alencastro -- The Portuguese in Africa / John K. Thornton -- Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire, 1400-1800 / A. J. R. Russell-Wood -- Political configurations and local powers / Francisco Bethencourt -- Ecclesiastical structures and religious action / Isabel dos Guimarães Sá -- Portuguese expansion, 1400-1800 : encounters, negotiations, and interactions / Anthony Disney -- Portuguese imperial and colonial culture / Diogo Ramada Curto -- Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire / Luís de Sousa Rebelo -- The expansion and the arts : transfers, contaminations, innovations / Luís de Moura Sobral -- Science and technology in Portuguese navigation : the idea of experience in the Sixteenth Century (translated by Neil Safier) / Francisco Contente Domingues -- Portuguese expansion in a global context / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006011732
ISBN9780521846448 (hardback)
ISBN0521846447 (hardback)
ISBN9780521608916 (pbk.)
ISBN0521608910 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DP583 .P677 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold