{"product_id":"the-portuguese-empire-14151808-9780801859557","title":"The Portuguese Empire 14151808","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a variety of complimentary perspectives on the background, nature and extent of Portuguese expansion..a powerful reminder that empires are made, not born. -- Lincoln Paine Nautical Research Journal Enumerates Portuguese contributions to other peoples' pasts and presents, especially in the contexts of the 'ebb and flow of commodities,' the 'dissemination of flora and fauna' and the 'transmission of styles, theories and ideas.' The original feature is the author's concentration on people and transport as vectors of cultural exchange... He evokes a lively picture of the highly mobile merchants, missionaries and administrators who hurried back and forth across oceans and continents to keep the enterprise going. Times Literary Supplement A. J. R. Russell-Wood realized that human and geographical factors contributed much to Portuguese success. Some practices were responses to the colonial experience itself. He therefore culled this historical literature, largely modern works in English including his own, to explore a rich variety of aspects of the Portuguese colonial empire... If geography is defined as mankind's relationship with its planet, this book is the essence of historical geography. Informative and entertaining, it is important for its new approach and insights, and because it confirms the amazing global perspective of Portugal's colonial rulers. Journal of Historical Geography This is a book where every page bears witness to the author's fascination with the Portuguese colonial world and his deep love of his subject. It is the kind of book which results from a scholar's decision to open to the world the files he has accumulated in a lifetime's reading. As a result it is a sort of encyclopaedia of strange and recondite information, colourful detail, anecdotes and quotations. It is certainly a book that any student of Portuguese colonial activity would want to read and, indeed, to own. Mariner's Mirror\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Maps\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Johns Hopkins Edition\u003cbr\u003eAcknoledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Quincentennials\u003cbr\u003eI. Portugal and the \"Age of Discoveries\"\u003cbr\u003eII. Moves: Caravels, Carracks, Caravans, Canoes, and Carts\u003cbr\u003eIII. Flux and Reflux of People\u003cbr\u003ei. Migrants and Settlers\u003cbr\u003eii. Servants of the Crown\u003cbr\u003eiii. Servants of Christ\u003cbr\u003eiv. Servants of Mammon\u003cbr\u003ev. The Voiceless\u003cbr\u003evi. Individuals and Groups\u003cbr\u003evii. Carriers of Disease\u003cbr\u003eIV. Ebb and Flow of Commodities\u003cbr\u003eV. Dissemination of Flora and Fauna\u003cbr\u003eVI. Transmission of Styles, Mores, and Ideas\u003cbr\u003eVII. Moverment in Word and Image\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eA Note of Two Portuguese Artists\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements for Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405190046039,"sku":"9780801859557","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801859557.jpg?v=1730489047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-portuguese-empire-14151808-9780801859557","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}