A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 (Volume 2) (repost)
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 (Volume 2) By A. R. Disney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 052140908X | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 052140908X | PDF | 3 MB
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 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.