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  • The Zambezi

    A History

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the culture of the river peoples and their relations with the Portuguese creole society of the prazos. Hitherto unused manuscript material illustrates ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Braganzas

    The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    Series series Dynasties
    For 270 years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbours. They ruled the vast empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889, successfully creating a unified nation and preventing the country from splitting into small warring ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Portugal in European and World History

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. Portugal in European and World History, however, demonstrates that the contrary is true, showing that Portugal has been crucial to the development of Europe and the modern world. Spanning many centuries, from early Moorish times to the Atlantic Empire; the English Alliance of 1650 - 1900; African colonies; ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • A Short History of Mozambique

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence and its continued after-effects. Though peace was achieved in 1992 through international mediation, Mozambique's remarkable recovery has shown signs of stalling. Malyn ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Navigations

    The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals gave these ... Read more

    Was $32.99 USD Now $21.39 USD

  • Cabo Verde and the Creole South Atlantic

    A New History

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    The Cabo Verde Islands are now a popular tourist destination but, guidebooks apart, there is little in print in English that covers their history and culture. This book offers a readable account not only of the islands' past, but also of their place in the wider story of the South Atlantic's Portuguese-speaking communities. First settled in the fifteenth century, the inhabitants of Cabo Verde were ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • East Africa

    Edited by Malyn Newitt ...
    Series series Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries
    The Portuguese appear to have been the first European visitors to encounter East Africa, with the arrival of a lone traveller, Pero da Covilham, in c.1491. Covilham left no account of his experiences, so Vasco da Gama had little idea of what to expect when he led his first voyage to the region in 1497. The account of this expedition paints a vivid portrait of the first contacts between Portugal ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America.Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions of a late medieval society were deployed to aid expansion into Africa and the Atlantic islands, as ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Emigration and the Sea

    An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • A Concise History of Portugal

    by David Birmingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume work on Portugal, studying the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil, the growth of the wine trade, and the evolution of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Portugal

    by Ian Robertson ...
    A concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century that Portugal became a country in its own right, having been a Roman colony and then having suffered both Barbarian and Islamic invasions. The golden age of discoveries, the reign of Henry the Navigator, and great seamen such as Vasco da Gama led to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Portuguese

    A Portrait of a People

    by Barry Hatton ...
    Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent’s south-west rim.In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led Europe out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and they brought Asia and Europe together. Evidence of ... Read more

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