Erschienen: Vol. 1 - Vol. 2
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 political 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. 'A 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. Unusual in covering both Portugal and the empire in twin volumes. The first in-depth history of Portugal and its empire before the 19th century published in English since 1972 and first such fully-documented history in English. Unusual in including the empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
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