Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contents for Volume 1; Abbreviations; List of Maps; Preface; 15 North Africa; 16 Exploring the Coasts of Atlantic Africa; 17 Engaging with Atlantic Africa; 18 The Atlantic Islands and Fisheries; 19 Breakthrough to Maritime Asia; 20 Empire in the East; 21 Informal Presence in the East; 22 Brazil: Seizing and Keeping Possession; 23 Formation of Colonial Brazil; 24 Late Colonial Brazil; 25 Holding on in India: The Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 26 Eastern Empire in the Late Colonial Era: Peripheries; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal's formation and history up to 1807 and of its acquisition of a wide-flung maritime empire from the early fifteenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index
