Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overvie

Winner of the Dom João de Castro Prize for Portuguese History This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, a

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible,

While the general outline of the history of Portuguese expansion in Asia is rather well-known, many areas that were hubs of trade and settlement have been only

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in