Research Catalog

Title

The Portuguese empire, 1415-1808 : a world on the move / A.J.R. Russell-Wood.

Author

Russell-Wood, A. J. R., 1939-2010

Publication

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Russell-Wood, A. J. R., 1939-2010.

Description

xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• History
• Portugal > Colonies
• Intercultural communication
• Civilization, Modern > Portuguese influences
• Portuguese > Foreign countries > History
• História de portugal > 1415-1808
• Expansão européia ultramarina
• Colonialismo > 1415-1808 > Portugal
• Overzeese expansie
• Ontdekkingen
• Portuguese colonies
• 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published: A world on the move : the Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415-1808. Manchester [England] : Carcanet, in association with The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-264) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Quincentennials -- Portugal and the "Age of Discoveries" -- Movers: caravels, carracks, caravans, canoes, and carts -- Flux and reflux of people (Migrants and settlers, Servants of the Crown, Servants of Christ, Servants of mammon, the voiceless, individuals and groups, carriers of disease) -- Ebb and flow of commodities -- Dissemination of flora and fauna -- Transmission of styles, mores, and ideas -- Movement in word and image -- Chronology -- A note on two Portuguese artists [Carlos Juliao (1740-1811)and Joaquim Candido Guillobel (1787-1859)].

ISBN

• 0801859557
• 9780801859557

LCCN

• 98003736
• 9780801859557

OCLC

• ocm38602164
• 38602164
• SCSB-1882760

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library