A AVENTURA ÉPICA DE UM POVO UM RELATO ÚNICO E FASCINANTE Nesta obra ímpar de investigação, que abarca um dos períodos mais importantes da história nacional, Malyn Newitt, escritor britânico e o primeiro titular da cátedra Charles Boxer, oferece-nos um estudo pormenorizado e acessível sobre como os portugueses dominaram o mundo durante os séculos xv e xvi. Baseado em dezenas de anos de investigação, Newitt examina como as ideias e instituições de uma sociedade medieval tardia foram postas e...

Navegações explora as viagens de descoberta portuguesas, situando-as nos seus contextos da Europa medieval e renascentista. Mostra como estas viagens nasceram de um espírito de cruzada, bem como do comércio de longa distância com a Ásia e África, e com os avanços técnicos na cartografia e na conceção de navios. O comércio de escravos, a diáspora dos judeus sefarditas e a disseminação intercontinental de plantas e animais conferiram a estas viagens um significado global de longo prazo.

Portugal é um país que tem sido ocasionalmente tratado como pequeno e relativamente pouco importante. Contudo, este livro demonstra que a realidade é o oposto, mostrando que Portugal tem sido crucial para o desenvolvimento da Europa e do mundo moderno. Abarcando vários séculos, das invasões árabes ao império atlântico, as alianças com Inglaterra, as colónias africanas, o regime de Salazar e a revolução liberal de 1974, o autor tece um elogio da história portuguesa e do seu papel no mundo.

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 Newitt explores the historical roots of Mozambican disunity and hampered development, beginning wi...

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 languages and indigenized Portuguese culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries these were joined by...

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 of diverse origins. Some came from Portugal, others arrived as slaves from mainland Africa, a...

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; the Salazar regime; and the country's liberal revolution in 1974, Malyn Newitt offer...

A Casa de Bragança forneceu os reis e as rainhas de Portugal durante 270 anos. Neste livro, Malyn Newitt conta a surpreendente e desconhecida história desta família que reinou em Portugal até 1910 e que marcou o nosso país até à actualidade. Descreve as personalidades, histórias, disputas, ambições, excentricidades, conquistas e derrotas destes monarcas, e como eles marcaram os acontecimentos políticos, sociais e económicos da época.A história dos reis e rainhas da última dinastia ...

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 Portuguese and British colonial rule over the people of the long-lived Lunda kingdoms, and the Loz...

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 voyages long-term global significance.The voyages of discovery are narrated within ...

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 states, and they saved the monarchy and government from total destruction by the marauding arm...

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 well as how, through rivalry with Castile, this grew into a worldwide commercia...