Portuguese oceanic expansion, 1400-1800

Abstract

Preface Norman Fiering Introduction Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto translated by Neil Safier Part I. Economics and Society: 1. The economy of the Portuguese Empire Stuart Schwartz 2. Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1822 Jorge Pedreira 3. Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean M. N. Pearson 4. The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic world Luis Felipe de Alencastro translated by Marguerite I. Harrison 5. The Portuguese in Africa John Thornton Part II. Politics and Institutions: 6. Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire John Russell-Wood 7. Political configurations and local powers Francisco Bethencourt 8. Ecclesiastical structures and religious action Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa Part III. The Cultural World: 9. Encounters, negotiations, and interactions Anthony Disney 10. Portuguese imperial and colonial culture Diogo Ramada Curto 11. Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire Luis Moura Sobral 12. Science and technology in Portuguese navigation: an essay on the idea of experience in the sixteenth century Francisco C. Domingues translated by Neil Safier Part IV. The Comparative Dimension: 13. Portuguese expansion in a global context Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.